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SWINDLER CAPTURED IN WINDSOR. Windsor, Ont., July 19. Equipped with a five-foot telescope and long-distance telephone wire, a man who says he is Harry Miller, 30 years of age, of Chicago, was found by two city detectives yesterday afternoon in the upper room of a house on Tecumseh road, nearly a mile away from the track. When the officers broke into the house Miller was just phoning to Chicago confederates the fact that luqiiietn, a rank outsider in the sixth race, and quoted in the mutucls at 0 for a ticket, had "just entered the stretch and was leading the field." Miller was arrested and will be arraigned in the police court charged with using the telephone for sending out racing information, contrary to the Ontario criminal code. Arrangements for sending out the racing information ahead of the official race wire were perfect. With his big telescope installed on a stand and shielded from view by a curtain, Miller was nolo to plainly distinguish the leading horses as they left the barrier and again as they entered tin? homestretch. He told the officers he had "worked" at most of the big tracks in Canada and the United States, and that by his telephone-toleseope system his Chicago friends had been big winners in the last three months. The local authorities received information from Latonia and other racing centers, which caused them to search several houses near the Windsor track and resulted in the capture.
