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Show Ogden Rail Employe Wins $150,000 in Irish Sweeps Utahn En Route Home From Coast Trip Made to Consider Sale of Ticket Th bonansa at th and of th Irish sweepstakes brought a Utah railroad man flM.OOO today. Ralph Harrell, 44B Twenty-seventh Twenty-seventh street, Ogden, waa on of six United States winners of $150,000 each when Punch cam in first in the Ceaarewltch stakes at Newmarket, England, according accord-ing to th Associated Press. But whether Harrell will receive the entire $150,000 he won on the 12.60 ticket I uncertain. After his ticket was drawn several days ago, making him a certain winner of upward of 13000, ha received several bids for a share or all of the ticket Today, he Is en route horn from San Franclaco, wher h went to see one of these bidders. bid-ders. Friends In Ogden had received re-ceived no word from him. Harrell, a middle-aged South- I t rn Pacific railroad brakeman, has worked out of Ogden about 15 years. Married and divorced several years ago from Mlaa Alma George, they have been going together to-gether again lately. Asked whether sh would quit her Job as clerk in an Ogden tore. Mis George said, "I don't ' know yet. After all, I'm only th gin! friend. He hasn't popped the question.' Sh aid sh had received word from him that he will be In Og- , den tonight, but did not know , whether h had sold hi ticket.. . A retired railroad freight for-man, for-man, William M. Hop, an apart- ' ment neighbor of Harrell, sold hlra th swtepataka ticket and, by selling a winnsr, will receiv $5000. from th Irish hospital trust, organiser of th world-wld ) sweepstakes. |