Split 21 ways, each of Dunne's heirs could expect around $1,500, if the old bills sold for what the appraisers said.
Kitts, the man who found it all, ended up with about $2,700 after legal fees, by one account. He used it to pay off his van.
"I can sleep at night," he said. "I don't have to hide something. I'd do it again."
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He did learn one thing from that first promise to split it. "I get most everything in writing now," he said.
Patrick Dunne hid his money so well that no one found it for almost 70 years. Once it was found, it took about two years to all but disappear.
