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FORMER JOCKEY LOSES HIS MIND. New York, December 10. Ben Rigby. an old-time jockey, came home from France yesterday on the French liner Rochambeau. He won and spent fortunes on the tracks of this and other countries, but lie has ridden his last race and spent his last cent. He has been a paretic for several years and has finally become Insane. Friends in London paid his passage home and sent a trained nurse with him. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital and will be sent to St. Louis, where his mother lives, at once. He is .",5 years old. On the Rochambeau were a number of people who had known the famous rider In the past, and a purse of 10 was collected for him.
