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The Sacramento Union, Thursday, Number 19, Page 7, Column 7, 19 November 1914 - Dead Man Said to Have Left Wealth It Is Thought Charles Wells Hid $24,000 in Coin Near Cabin. Special to the Union. MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), Nov. 18. — Near a shack in which he lived for many years in the district of the Ten Mile house on the Marysville-Browns Valley road. Charles Wells, who died at the Yuba county hospital Tuesday morning at the age of 84, is thought to have hidden a treasure of many thousands of dollars, which may never be discovered. Wells was at the infirmary for seventeen days before his death, but could not be induced to tell the location of the treasure, which is believed to amount to more than $24,000. The money Wells received about three years ago when he disposed of valuable property in Sacramento, it is said. Realizing that the end was near, Superintendent Bell tried to get the secret from the dying man. Mrs. H. D. Plantz, a neighbor of Wells in the country, upon whose property the cabin of Wells is located, was also unsuccessful in an attempt to have the old man reveal the hiding place of the money. Wells himself appeared to think that he would soon get well and could go and unearth the treasure himself. "I will soon be all right, and then we will get the money,” he said a short time before his death, it is reported. Before the end, however, Wells gave Mrs. Plantz the power of attorney for him. He left no relatives as far as known. Another feature of the case is that a controversy has arisen as to whose property the cabin is located on. Plantz claims that it is on his property, while F. B. Kupser, who owns adjoining property, is of the opinion that Wells was living on his land. A survey may be necessary to determine the matter. But in spite of the reports of buried wealth there is a version of the story that says the treasure was created solely by hallucinations and through the imagination of the old man in his illness.
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The Sacramento Union, Thursday, Number 19, Page 5, Column 1, 19 November 1914 - Yuba Octogenarian Dies.
Special to the Union. MARYSVILLE (Yuba Co.), Nov. 17.— Charles Wells, who has been a resident of Yuba county for many years, having lived for a long period in a cabin on the Marysville-Browns Valley road, died in this city, where he was brought a few weeks ago on account of illness, at an early hour morning. He was a native of Ireland, 84 years old and was a farmer by occupation. In former years he is said to have been quite wealth. So far as known he leaves no relatives.

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Charles Bowles, aka "Black Bart"; 1888 or earlier making it a public domain image. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Bowles_aka_Black_Bart.jpg