IRISH SWEEP PRIZE
-Own dotreihondent.)
Man Who Won £17,000 . — And Kept It
(By
Air Mial—
LONDON, July 7. Mr John Arthur Muiray, aged 22, of Redear, was ono of the few winners of big prizes in the Irish sweepstake who did not spend the money quickly. Last year tlie luck of the draw in Dublin gave him £17,000 for a 10/ticket; his wil!, published to-day, shows that he died lfeaving estate valued at £17,095. Apart from a car-J-in which he lost his life while driving with friend^ frbm adance at Stockton on March 6 — a dance at Stockton on March 6 — gances, and now his widowed mother and brother and three sisters are to reap the benefit. Mrs Murrav, wlio shared with her son her home in Ripon-road has been left half the estate, and the other half is to be divided eqnally between John's brother Bernard and "his three sisters, Edith, Kathleen and Margaret Murray.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 166, 31 July 1937, Page 19
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