A TRAGIC DEATH.
MELBOURNE, July 18. A poor widow, ignorant of racing, entrusted a youth who was going to the recent Flemiugton races with a sovereign to invest 10s each on two rank outsiders. On learning from a newspaper that both the horses had won she became so excised that she was seized with a fit and died. The irony of it all lies in the fact that the widow's son met the youth at the races and persuaded him to invest his mother’s money on favourites, both of which lost.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3097, 23 July 1913, Page 25
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91A TRAGIC DEATH. Otago Witness, Issue 3097, 23 July 1913, Page 25
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