SWEEP TRAGEDIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 November 1934, Page 8

SWEEP TRAGEDIES

£lO,OOO WINNER FOUND DEAD. LONDON, October 4. Mr William Richard Almond, 33, a Hull wholesale fruit merchant, who it is stated, won a £lO,OOO prize in the Irish sweep on the Cesarewitch two years ago, was found dead in the garage at his home at West Ella, near Hull, yesterday. He recently returned from a holiday. His health had not been good. Mr Almond heard of his good luck in the sweepstake over the telephone, and he immediately after the race went back to work. He was of an extremely shy disposition, and at the time declined to discuss his future or what he was prepared to do with the money. A number of those who have drawn prizes in the Irish Sweepstakes have died in tragic circumstances. Mi’ Leonard Edward Mayes, of Stratford, who won £1,250 last November, was found dead in the River Lea in May. Mrs Ellen Edmundson, a widow, who won £6OO in the “sweep” on the Manchester November Handicap in 1931, was found dead in her shop in Salford in March, 1932, Mr Reginald W. Cuff, a sweep and gardener, of Weymouth, who won £l,OOO as a part share of the second prize in the Derby Sweepstake of 1933, was killed in a motor-cycle crash when returning from a dance in August, 1933

-Mr J. Daubner, aged 72, of Woburn Slienstone, near Lichfield, who drew Sudbury in this year’s Derby Sweepstake and should have received £514, was found dead in bed before the prize reached him.

Edward Joseph Martin, a retired Civil Servant, of Greenwich, who won £30,000 on Golden Miller in a drew in 1933, was found dead in the Irish mail train when it arrived at Holyhead. Dr. Asutosh Sinha, an Indian, who drew Colliery Band in the Grand National Sweepstake last year, died suddenly at his home in Sheffield in June. Miss Audrey Harries, a Cardiff singer, who shared in a first prize in the same draw, was killed in a motor smash in Cardiff in May.