FAKED TICKET
LOTTERY PRIZE PAID. (United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright.) Paris, December 5. A swindler presenting a counterfeit ticket, duplicating the winning number secured a 1,000,000 franc prize (approximately £12,500), in the national lottery. The authorities paid the genuine tickctholder a second million. THE WINNING TICKET BURIED WITH DEAD MAN. (United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) London, December 6. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Express asks: Can a dead man be disturbed in his grave in order that his heirs inherit £12,000? The problem has arisen because Charles Guafrette died just before his ticket drew a million francs in a lottery prize. Guafrette was buried before his heirs remembered the lottery ticket in his coat pocket. They find they cannot claim the prize without producing the ticket, so they are demanding that the body be exhumed.
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Southland Times, Issue 22192, 7 December 1933, Page 7
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139FAKED TICKET Southland Times, Issue 22192, 7 December 1933, Page 7
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