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Show ! bank with the endorsement, "drawn j ; against an uncollected account." Adding further complications to his j enterprise, the young man took rooms at several hotels simultaneously registering reg-istering under a different name at each. Now comes the bull pup that was indirectly in-directly responsible for his downfall.; On April 6, while navrng his boots blacked at a itaud, he took a fancy to the bootblack's dog and bought the animal. Hut Instead of taking tiie dog away with him he got a boy do dellver "Beauty" to the young woman at whoso house he was arrested. When the bootblack could not get the check cashed he notiflod the police, and through the boy who bad delivered deliver-ed the dog, the detectives traced Day. ! As the youth was placed tinder arrest ar-rest he said: "It's lucky for you that you didn't wait a week- longer. I'd have been on the high seas with my brtdo." Instead, he will appear in court somo time today. YOUTH ARRESTED 'ON CHARGES OE LARCENY POLICE FIND HIM AT HOME OF YOUNG WOMAN. He Had Made Various Purchases Paying Pay-ing For Them With Unre-deemable Unre-deemable Checks. New York. April S. A young man who Bald he was Hamilton E.Crornptou, 23 years old, a clerk, but who the police say 1b Carl N. Day, alias Richard Rich-ard N. Stevens, once an inmate of the Elmira (N.' Y.) reformatory. Is held by tho police today after having ! bten arrested-on West Fifty-sixth street last night, at the home of a young worn in. Several and various charges of larceny were responsible for bis arrest. "Beauty," a fifty-dollar bull pup, was taken Intp custody along with tho young man. The youth went to a cell; the bull pup was t'i to r deilc at headquarters. It Is alleged' by the police that Day wrote many letters from Chicago to .. i, i.k merchants, giving 137 Michigan Mich-igan avenue as his address, and saying say-ing that he was an agent for a pun-llshing pun-llshing firm and was about la visit New York to purchase $1,300 Worth of books. When he arrived here, it is said, he depoglted a cnecK on a Chicago bank for $497 and tneu launched on a series of mysterious operations. He acquired offices; in two different buildings and scattered checks broadcast. Each oV t"ae checks wub tu.ued down by the Plaza |