Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1914 — PAINTER HEIR TO MILLIONS [ARTICLE]

PAINTER HEIR TO MILLIONS

Bert Brunstrup Throws Away Brush When Telegram Notifies Him of Wealth. South Norwalk, Conn. —Bert Brunstrup of East Norwalk was Wielding a paint brush, as he has done for the past 25 years, when a telegram was handed him which informed him that his uncle had died in Germany and that he was the chief heir to an estate of $17,500,000. "Wheel” exclaimed Brunstrup, and he threw his paint and brush into a duck pond. “Guqss I can live without working on that,” he added. . Brunstrup knew that he had wealthy relatives In Germany, but he left home in his Infancy and had lost track of his family connections, not even knowing that his father was dead.