THE WIDOW'S SOVEREIGN.
SUPPOSED WIN CAUSES DEATH
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Cops right.)
(Received July 18, 9.50 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, July 18.
A poor widow, ignorant of racing,. entrusted a youth going to the recent Flemington races with a sovereign, to invest . ten shillings each on two rank outsiders. The woman learning from a newspaper that both horses liad won, became so excited that she was seized with a fit and dhd. The irony of it. all lies m the fact that the widow's son met the youth at tho races and persuaded the youth to invest the widow's money' on favorites, and both lost.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13131, 18 July 1913, Page 3
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104THE WIDOW'S SOVEREIGN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13131, 18 July 1913, Page 3
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