Roosevelt Standard | 1948-07-15 | Page 11 | "Pauper" Leaves $80, 000

"PAUPER" LEAVES $80,000 SPRINGFIELD, OHIO A surprised niece, Miss Dell Reano, was given the job of settling the estate of her uncle. Old Charley Corte, who died recently. His estate in addition to piles of old newspapers and trash he gathered gather-ed off the streets included more than $80,000 in United States Treasury and municipal bonds, cashiers' checks and cash. The old man had no electricity in his ramshacklcd house and got water by the bucket from a neighbor. The old man often told of playing his violin before the crowned heads of Europe but no one knew how he accumulated ac-cumulated his mortey.