Leo Allen, 17 years old, of 210 Hanover Street, Portsmouth, N. H., who, according to his own story, was unable to find work and left home to seek employment at some Southern resort, pleaded guilty to grand larceny before Magistrate Glatzmayer in Morrissania Court yesterday and was held in $1,000 bail for the grand jury. The charge is based on the theft of an automobile to ease his journey.

Allen was arrested at Allen and Delaney Streets early Thursday morning as he was driving an automobile the wrong way in a one-way street. Taken to a police station, he admitted he had stolen the car, owned by Samuel Bach of 854 West 181st Street, the Bronx, two hours before from Third Avenue and 145th Street, and had started for the South, only to lose his way in the mazes of lower Manhattan. The youth had two cents in his pockets.