Lottery Coup

Hastings Standard, Volume IX, Issue 5106, 25 January 1906, Page 4

Lottery Coup

£IO,OOO LOR J6s

A £IO,OOO prize drawing was won by two brothers-in-law living at Lille, in Xorih L'rance. Their nainew air Helper and Messing, Gelpor is forty-eight years of age, and he has a wife and five children, By trade a journeyman painter, he had barn out of work a week when he heard of his stroke of luck. Lie declared that he would give £4OO to eaph member of his family and would Imy an annuity fur his father,

The other winner, Messing, is aged thirty-two, and is a bachelor. He is a brass turner, and is employed by M. Payeu, Hue Henri Kolb, Lille. He has three brothers and two sisters, and is well known among his fellow-workmen as an amateur actor,

Qn hearing of |iis winnings, Messing said. - Wf-'M: L ani very pleased, because this sum will enable me to help my brothers and sisters, who have not been lucky in lite. My brother-in-law and mysejf bought the ticket some months ago frpiu a focal ijrm of bankers, Messrs Pajojt and Lefebvre. It cost us .lbs. We wein together ;m<[ paid f>s each, so that my 8s has brought me in £20,000/"" Interviewed, (fcjp.er said : " My wife created a scene when I bought the ticket for spending such a large sum as f>s from our household savings.''