£65,000 SWEEP.

Otago Witness, Issue 3510, 21 June 1921, Page 26

£65,000 SWEEP.

EX NAVAL MAN’S FORTUNE. “TOOK TICKET FOR FUN.” LONDON, June 2. The winner of the Calcutta sweep of £65,000 was a Londoner, Captain Alban Jones, D. 5.0.. a retired naval officer, who is now assistant marine superintendent of the Uid in Castle Line. Captain Jones intends to nmain at bus job. He bought his ticket from a member of the Baltic Exchange who had ec’cured a book of 50. “1 never bet in my life, and T don’t join sweeps on principle, ’ said Captain Jones to-day, “but a friend asked me to buy a ticket in April, and I took ot.e for fun. I heard on T uesday that 1 had drawn Humorist, but the ticket was missing, and, I believed. torn up. I hunted for it for hours, and found it among some discard d papers. 1 did not see the Derby, because it was my first dav as assistant ttipeiinteiident. Breakfasting at the hotel this morning, a guest remarked: “So ind-so won the sweep.” but Jones contradicted him, and tho guest jokingly asked: “You haven’t won it yourself. have you?” Jones answered: "The fact is I have.” Jones’s daughter at college has been asking for a two-seater car, and her father lias now written to her that he has “got something toward it." Jones during tho war acted as commodore to convoys in til* Aleditcr cancan.