TATTERSALL WINNER FATE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3146, 4 December 1922, Page 8

TATTERSALL WINNER FATE.

During Easter. !!)21 (says the .Melbourne Age of .November I). Arthur Henry Pearson. shearers’ cook, workini'; a 1 Colae. was the'lucky holder of a hail-share of a ticket on Eurylhmie in the Sydney Cup in TattersallA •sweep. Eurtiimic, as lurt history records. won the' Cup. and Pearson sharel hall o! i'l2oo. the (Jovermnent swallowing a considerable lump In taxation, though it declared the sweep itself to he illegal. However. the half of L'l2oo was good enough for Arthur Pearson. and lie came to live in .Melbourne the ide of a yen Lieu:a n of leisure. Mo look up his residence with an old pal, Joseph Chen, in Napier street, Citzroy; hut. despite his humble surroundings, he ■pent lavishly, living at the rate of L - 1.000 a year. His life was a short and' merry one. in the words of counsel ‘die drank himself to death.” ({right's • disease developed- and then mental i rouble, and with flint) of Ins little fori line still unexpended he passed away in the Receiving Home. They commenced the litigation that ventilated the unfortunate man’s luck and end in the Court yesterday. filled fdirot her. Sydney Brown. with tho con.sent of a full brother. Cecil Pearon. applied for letters of administration, i'ii the assumption that Arthur Pearson had died intestate. Bin Joseph Olsen lodged a caveat, contending that in May or July. 11)21. Pearson made a will, in the course of which he he,-;neatiled L'2ot) to Olsen. Lot) lo .Mrs Olsen. C2OU to Sydney Brown. fill to John llrew (a hoarder in Olsen’s house), and Cod to Amy Cncisl (a barmaid). and the residue of his estate to his brother. Cecil Pearson. This will. it. was staled was given to 1,. .1. Hayes, a licensed victualler, for sale keeping: hut. Hayes stated that not long after Pearson deposited the will with him he took it away again, and he (Hayes) saw no more ol it. Whether he repented of the will and revoked and destroyed il was for the Court to determine. Mr Justice M aim made absolute the order nisi discharging the <aveat. and granting letters of administration, as in an intestacy, in favor ol the brothers. His Honor found that there was no evidence to support-- the suggestion that Mr !,. J. Hayes, of Nieliolon Hotel. Nicholson street. Carlton, had destroyed or retained the will. On the oilier hand, there was good reason to lead the testator to aHer his will, because, although he remained friendly with Olsen and Brew, he alse remained on affectionate terms with his lii'ol hers. About I'Vhrary of this year he must have seen that he was badly waMing his estate', and it would he apparent to him then that d In--will remained as il was Olsen and. other heiieliciaries would remain in to the exclusion o! the brothers, been use alter their specific hepnests had l.ii'ii mil [here would he little or nothing lei I for I lie hrol llels as mailers were going.