DEAD MAN’S LUCK
WINNING TICKET ON CORPSE Just as the undertaker’s men were about to close a coffin in which lay the body of a man who, according to Continental custom, was dressed in his best clothes for burial, his widow noticed sticking out of his coat pocket a fractional lottery ticket. To her astonishment on examining the ticket she found that it had drawn the third prize in the Christmas lottery, entitling the holder to a very large sum.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 12
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80DEAD MAN’S LUCK Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 12
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