Benjamin Wynkoop, thirty-eight years old, of 105 East One Hundred and Twenty-second Street, a clerk in the offices of the Consolidated Railroad in the Grand Central Station, was charged in the Yorkville Police Court yesterday with forgery.
    O. M. Shepard, Superintendent of the New York division of the road, was the complainant. He said that on or about Aug. 1 he noticed that four passes numbered 8,908, 8,911, 8,939, and 8,923 had been removed from a book of fifty. Orders were issued to conductors to take up and report upon the missing passes.
    The pass numbered 8,911 was collected from E. H. Towle on Aug. 6. It bore date of July 25, 1894 and had been issued to C. H. Sprague. Mr. Shepard discovered that his name had been forged on the pass, and an expert declared that, in his opinion, the forged signature was in the handwriting of Wynkoop.
    Wynkoop had been in the Superintendent's office for eight years, and Mr. Shepard was loth to suspect him, but was at last compelled to do so.
    In court yesterday Wynkoop pleaded "not guilty." He was held in $3,000 bail for examination to-morrow.

Source:

Unknown, "Charged With Forging a Pass, Benjamin Wynkoop Accused of Signing Supt. O. M. Shepard's Name," The New York Times, New York, Friday, 12 October 1894, p. 1.