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Show ACCUSED YOUTH IS FOUND IH HOSPITAL Cecil Pratt, known by several other namea. wha waa arrestee tn thia dty two and one-half yeara ace while repre-sentlns repre-sentlns himself aa Oaua Sprecsela, Jr.. waa arrested while reclining- at hla ease In a private room at the 1.. D. 8. hnanital yesterday afternoon by Chief of Folic H. M. Barlow Sn1 Detective Karl Ripley. He Is chanted with obtaining mony uu-der uu-der false pretense. PraU admitted that ha had lasiud a number -of worthless check. He admitted ad-mitted also that he hi A aent a Hetnui from tsden to the Hotel l'tah. audi-east-d to himself, to bolster up his erivllt there. Pratt comet from a wealthy Ban Francisco Fran-cisco fitmlly. His unH ia a tohaco dealer with a big fortune and Ills mother ts alaoaVwealthv. His unr'e y..t him cut U a had check ecrane In this city thirty months ago by makine; all ths umour.ta good. . Complaint waa mad to the pol'ce yeeterday yee-terday from Tom bottHU a"raee that a youna man, known as C'e-'tl I'iKlerwor-l, had cashed a worthless ,'lierk for paying i for automobile hire, and tak-Iiia tak-Iiia the cluuia In money. The Hjlel ITtah also reirted a trsnsartloi of a similar nature. Th Hem'.ni hotel Joined the chorua with a $? rtck cwty. Walker Bfoa. ew goods store and tie Kelth-O'Brlen department etore told jf gooda secured under ailegrs false pretense. pre-tense. Maxim's cafe toM how Pratt had presented a bad clin k for 2i lest Frktiy night when the poll. wow- called, but a friend of Pratt had made aood the amount before the Mueeoata showed up. Pratt poeed at th KnuUford ho-t two iand one-half yeara ago as t hlje trweck-els. trweck-els. Jr. He sent a telegram to nlmeeif 'under that name, and wlien the tiellu-o pared the name he enawered and thua estabtlahM hla credit. He remained at the hotel several riavs under thst alias, un- I til he waa discovered. His relatives -squared" him and aaved hm from trou-bl trou-bl la the oourta. ' . |