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Show GAY FELLOW IS CAUGH1 By Deputies in the Service of His Father 8an "Francisco, Jan. 22 Sought for three years by bis own father, the sheriff of a Michigan county, Roy K. Pettlk, university graduate, .nid alleged al-leged to be an embezzler, forger and deserter from the United States navy, was arrested here last night upon a chance meeting on the street with ono of his father's deputies. It Is understood under-stood thut he will be turned over to the federal authorities. According to the police, Petllk, who is twenty-eight years old, lived at Itahacn, Gratiot county, Mich.; graduated grad-uated from the University of Michigan Michi-gan and became an attorney at Itab-aca. Itab-aca. He is alleged 'to have forged the name of his wife's mother to a mortgage for $3,500, to have secured the money, and disappeared. He then, pay the police, enlisted In the navy, but deserted In "Virginia, first borrowing, bor-rowing, the police state, large sums from his shipmates. They 6tate further that for the last two years he has been playing tho Don Juan in various California cities. The Michigan deputy who captured Pettlk came went to attend the funeral fune-ral of a brother, and was instructed by Sheriff Pettlk to make inquiries for the son here. |