The morning call., 1894-06-16
PRATT IN PRISON.
Suspected of Forgery and
Grand Larceny.
Was He an Accomplish of Won Tiede-
mann in the Cristy Land Swim
die and the Thompson CaseP

An arrest was made last evening by OFF,
GERS Dillon and Crockett. which may prove
to have bearing upon the case of Carl
Won Tiedemann, charged with forgery and
grand larceny, and which is now pending
in the Superior Court.
The arrested party was Horace C. Pratt,
and although no charges have yet been
entered upon the prison register, it is al
most a certainty that to-day he will be for
mally charged with the same offenses as
Won Tiedemann.
Although Won Tiedemann only came
into nOtoriety through the agency of the
police in March last, his case attracted
cOnside rable notice because of the bold
ness OF the case with which il was claimed
he was connected.
On March Z last ths discovery was made
In the Recorders Office that a deed had
been recorded in which the name OF Mrs
Harriet 2. Cristy had been forged. Ac-
coTdiDg TO this spurious document block
of Land on Lake street and Fifteenth ave-
nue. was deeded by Mrs. Cristy TO one
Horace c. Pratt, and by the latter the
property was mortgaged to Alonzo Thayer
for several hundred dollars.
AT the time this paper was fled Mrs.
Cristy was in Europe, and her agent in the
city noted the filing of the deed and the
published each day. Knowing that Mrs.
Cristy's property was uni1cumDered ana
that such a transaction as that published
could not be legitimate, he made an in
vestigatiOD, with 1.-THE result that the for
gerry was discovered.
The matter was reported to the police.
and it aid not take them long to trace
where the forged document originated.
They learned that the deed had come from
d firm of sO-called real estate brokers doing
business under the name of Won Tiede-
mann IL Carr.
Both members of the firm were ar
rested on charges of forgery and their
cases are still pending.
Later a charge OF grand larceny was en-
tered against Won Tiedemann in having
been, IL Is alleged, engaged, in company
with Guy 5. Whltcomb, George Fletcher
and two others, in a scheme to swlnde
Peter Thompson. a Swede, out of 500.
by pretending TO get him lucrative posi-
liOD.
Ever since the forgery swindle was per-
petrated the police have been on the look
cut for Horace c. Pratt, in whose name
the deed was made out; AlonzO Thayer,
the bogus MORTGAGE, and a middle-aged
woman, who appeared before a notary
public at the time the mortgage was exc
cuted and represented that she was Mrs.
Cristy.
On Thursday the police located Pratt,
who is also known as j. Baker and Henry
Fiddler, at the corner of Sixth and Howard
streets, and yesterday he was placed I'M
der arrest.
Pratt is man about 30 years of age, and
earns living by taking street photo
graphs. lie was placed in the tanks and
his name entered Oh what is known as the
small book"
AS he was allowed to communicate with
no one what Pratt has to say regarding his
arrest or his connection with Won Tlede-
mann in the Cristy case will not be known
until he is formally charged.
The grand larceny charge which will be
placed against him is for being connected
IN the Thompson swindle, and there Is a
good chance OF his beng held on it, as
late last evening Thompson himself was
taken 10 the prison and identified the pris.
oner as one OF the men who had got the
500 from him by representing that in re-
turn for the money be would get a posi-
tion with handsome monthly salary at
taPhmant