SEVEN MEN WILL SHARE £70,000.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19134, 29 July 1930, Page 6

SEVEN MEN WILL SHARE £70,000.

OFFICIAL LISTS PROVE TICKET WAS ISSUED. LONDON, July 10. Fortune after all favoured the seven Barnstaple men—five railwayman, a road-sweeper and a motor engineer—whom the official lists have eventually proved drew one of the tickets for the winner of the Derby, Blenheim, in the Calcutta sweep, after the announce-

ment of the wrong winning' number was published in the newspapers. The men will share £70,000 after the disposal of a half-share. Two members: of the syndicate visited London, the others remaining at their jobs, and received the money from the bank. They departed hurriedly to avoid newspaper representatives.

Simultaneously two Coventry mechanics were informed that they would shortly draw a hali-share of another Blenheim ticket, the remainder of which they sold.

The two syndicates sold half shares of their tickets for £3OOO and £2500 respectively. After the race it was announced that a check of the official list of the Calcutta sweep showed that they had not drawn Blenheim, although the bank officials responsible for the negotiation of the numbers declared that they were correct and that both the Barnstaple arid Coventrv syndicates had won. The total at “stake for the nine men was £120,000.