At the world’s first sports meeting for blind athletes at the Powerhall Grounds, Edinburgh, on June 15, the programme included pole vaulting, sprints, hurdles, long distance and threelegged races. A two-months-old Italian newspaper, idly picked up in a railway station waiting room in Prague led to the recovery of a fortune by M. Josef Belotti, an official of the district administration of the town of Stanislau. In the paper was an appeal for heirs of a Franz Belotti, who had died in Buenos Aires, leaving £114,000. The man who read the appeal immediately told his friend Jlelotti, who claimed the money.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22628, 20 July 1935, Page 22
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