Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1920 — Supposed Paupers Misers. [ARTICLE]

Supposed Paupers Misers.

Many paupers who begged for a, livelihood were found after their death to have possessed enormous wealth. A notorious case is that of; Jean Baptiste Roateau, who died la a gypsy camp outside of Paris, after begging for 20 years. Gripped tightly tn his hand was found the key to a strong box In a Paris bank-., The box contained 8100,000 in gold, notes and securities—nil the property of this beggar. Before the recent world war there died In g Berlin garret Herr Schwarz, known to his neighbors M one of the poorest of the poor, Re sallied out daily into the fashionable quarters of the city, garbed in filthy rags and carrying a met In which be collected crusts and b other scraps of food. When he died there was found In hta wretched quarters >400,000, mostly in gold, concealed in Jars and botUea, and in bank notes, which served as stuffing for his bed. Samuel Rogers lived the life Of a tramp at Long Branch, N. and,' used to walk from that city to New York to bank hie money. ■» left 840.000, although he alwo*a considered himself too poor to boy fooß or clothing. He encasdd ‘tils foot * old pieces of burlap and ate whatever he could find, even to apple crusts from the street. r . Frank J. Cook of LaPorte, ngrtner in the ownership of body of land in northern wM* was in Rensselaer today to Attorney Abraham Halleck M Maae legal matters. Hg reports that tmficient fundi ard now in «gbt to insure the construction es the Barnard drainage improvement.