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jBARRIE ADMITS OWNER- 1 j SHIP OF AKNAHTON j ; 1 MIAMI, Fla., March 1. Patrick C. Barrie, alleged owner of the "ringer" which ran in a race at Hialeah last week and caused five horses and three horsemen to be ruled off the turf, was taken into custody by Pinker-ton detectives and Miami police in his automobile downtown last night. He is in the city jail, where the detectives are questioning him. No charges have been preferred against him and the Pinkerton men refused to say on whose behest they were acting. Barrie, they said, has admitted ownership of the four-year-old Aknahton, which ran in a three-year-old race as-Gailmont. The horse was immediately taken into custody and it was discovered that identification marks of Aknahton had been dyed out in an effort to make the horse resemble Gailmont. With Barrie the officers arrested F. A. Tavenner, one of the five men ruled off th track. The arrests were made by Capt. C. E. Duhaine and E. J. Weiss, Pinkerton men. Pinkerton men have been trailing Barrie since the sensational "ringer" case at the Havre de Grace track in Maryland last fall, when Aknahton ran as a horse named Shem and won the race. Shem, Pinkertons learned, had been dropped off on a Maryland farm while on the way from Belmont Park to Havre de Grace and Aknahton had been entered under Shems name at Havre de Grace. Aknahton and Ep, Pinkerton men said, were then shipped to New York, dropped at Belmont Park and three days later taken by van to the Jersey yards for shipment. Barrie, they said, changed his mind while in the yards and three days later the two horses were shipped by New York Central to Cleveland and then to Crown Point, Tnd. Pinkertons arrived at Crown Point two days later to find Aknahton missing and Ep still there. Aknahton next was trailed to Agua Caliente, from whence he was shipped directly to Miami with several other horses. Shem subsequently showed up at Red Bank, N. J., last November and Ep, the Pinkertons learned, is still at Crown Point. Investigation revealecl that Barrie was also known as Christie and as Peter Christie Barrie, and, according to the Pinkerton reports, also went under the alias of Westley. The report stated that he was arrested in England in 1917 and sentenced to three years imprisonment in London, September 7, 1917, for fraudulent practices in "ringing" a horse. Barrie was arrested in Winnipeg, Canada, November 20, 1927, for obtaining money under false pretenses, but was discharged. He is a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, and efforts will be made to have him deported.
