TICKET ON DEAD MAN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22326, 28 July 1934, Page 3

TICKET ON DEAD MAN

LOTTERY GROUP’3 LUCK When a body was exhumed at Fortiers by holders of a F rebel) National Lottery ticket, a ticket-which represented a prize of one million francs (about £12,500) was found carefully folded in a pocket of the dead man’s clothes. Xhe holders of the ticket, a group of whom the dead man was a member, had been searching frantically everywhere for the ticket, since the news of their luck was known. Then one of the group remembered that the man who had been nominated to hold the ticket had died. They asked his widow for permission to exhume the body, and arc now rejoicing at their luck. The widow will get the dead man's share of the prize. The fact that the dead man carried the ticket to the grave with him is accounted for by a village custom in certain parts of France of burying people fully dressed.