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TAKES UP CUDGEL FOR ACCUSED JOCKEY. George Swain, oaee prominent as a jockey on Canadian and American race tracks, is under arrest at Detroit charged with arson in connection with a fire which broke out at Hie Wayne Hotel. A blaze was discovered in Swains room and he was arrested as be left the building and held pending Investigation. I he; led rraiKt; ;dson tj write in the Toronto Gl .bo: •Swain had been in Toronto all winter, and left here a few da.v I ago on his way to Kentucky with hi- expected means of livelihood, the race horse Brinj Deep. Since la-t fall the lad had been working at a well-known hotel, and also in a leading city club, where he was well ih. tight of. and which he left well recommended. For months Swain had -tinted himself to provide necessities and veterinary care for the horse, with the hope that he would repay it when Hie races came, though only an optimist of the most pronounced kind could expect anything fr Briny Depr. The former rider may l.e a tragedy of Hie turf, but he is not a firebug."
