£6000 FROM GRAVE
WINNING LOTTERY TICKET LONDON, January 14. A Paris widow has cashed for £6OOO a prize-winning State lottery ticket, dug from her husband’s grave. It was found five months after his death in Iho coat in which ho was buried. Her husband died just before the draw, after noting the ticket number on a slip of paper. The’ widow found his note weeks after the burial, and afterwards learned that, the dead man had won £6OOO.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 February 1939, Page 11
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