The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-15

THE KILLING OF CONTROVERSIES.
Absurdity Of the Suicide Theory-The Will and
the Vanished Bonds 81, 600 Reward
and . Supine Police.

ana cuplne foEce
BRIDGEPORT, June IA, 1872
The matter Of the Calvocoresses murder stn
hangs IRE, and the detectives still at fault, al
though the clues in hand would seem to be sufi-
Gent to insure speedy working M OF the case
From the night OF the murder It has been the work
OF many persons, directly or indirectly interested in
SO doing, 20 establish the theory OF suicide,
and find facts in the to substantate the theory
Everything has been bent to that end and it is not
clear that any one yet engaged in clearing M ~
the mystery desires to unearth any facts which will
not go to prove the correctness OF that explana-
ton. On Monday last the will Of the late Captain
Colvocorcsses was proved by his executor, Mr.
George M. Woodruff, of Litchheld, and some of its
items are at least significant, when
THE SUICIDE THEORY
Is taken into consideration. Since the publication
Of the memorandum found In the box Of the dead
man, ana indicating the number, amount and name
Of his various securities, it has been the work OF
these suicide theorists 10 cast imputation OF
truth upon the memorandum and to poison public
opinion by insinuating that the dead man never
had the bonds named, and that the memorandum
was only part OF keenly played game to deceive
the pubic and the insurance companies by giving
his death the appearance OF
In the will spoken Of above the following items
occur 10 his wife Is given the OF 0ne-haf his
real estate, all his household furniture, and the
OF one nth OF the rest OF his property TO his
is given one-quarter OF the remainder, and the
other three-quarters are given In trust to his cX-
ecutors for his three daughters, the interest being
for their separate use.
The will is dated March ., 1872, ma by "A codcil
the following specific legacies Of Connecticut bonds
(now mssing) are given TO the following char
ties Sc 900 to the Bible Society; 900 the town
of Norwich VT, the income to be given to INDECENT
Inhabitants paupers; $1,000 to the selectmcn OF
Litch6ed, the income whereof Is to supply the
almshouse with weekly religious ana one seoul lar
newspaper and TO provide the means OF transporta-
ton for suchpaupers may desire to attend church
$1,000 to the Society for the Relief OF the Destitute
Children OF Seamen; legacy of $4,000 is given TO
his mother, and another of $1,000 to erect mon
ument to the memory Of Captain Alden Partridge.
Now, the date Of this document, IL VIII he seen, IL
March Q, 1872, and II the Captain contemplated
SUI eide
FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS FAMILY
he must have planned the act as long ago as prior
to the framing OF this viii, ana II, as la now in
simulated, he had not the bonds therein mentioned,
the requests were part OF the scheme to deceive
the public and delraud the insurance companies,
and were particularly sh0rt-sighted, since in the
failure to find the bonds the requests must be salts
fed out Of the other property OF the dead man. and
come out what would otherwise go to his family.
1t il much greater stretch Of the imagination to
believe that the whole thing-will, requests ana
all-was part OF a deliberate plan to hide suicide
than to believe the natural and obvious conclusion
that there was most cold-boOded and atrOclOns
murder. Since the Offering Of reward by Governor
| Jewell other rewards have been offered. and the
| various amounts are as follows:-rwo Thousand
vocoresses $40 by the city Of Bridgeport for the
discovery and arrest OF the murderer or murderers
| missing bonds. o
Facts are beng slowly developed whlcl, may lead
to the discovery OF the murderers. In the suspend
ers OF the murdered man, which are now at the
police station one OF the front buttons on the LEFT
side remains IN it's corresponding button hole on
the suspcnder loop evidently having been
PULLED OFr FROM THE wAIsTBAND
of the trousers by violent jerk. The trousers
have been spirited away, but this piece of evidence
remains to show that there was violence used by
some one and 1t Is asserted by those who saw and
examined the trousers that the waistbamd was
torn at the point where this button belonged. An.
other piece OF evidence has turned up. On the
ground where the dead man was found, near his
umbrella and not far from his body, was picked up
wOMAN's DRESSING BELT,
part of O suit such as are worn very generally by
has been made to identify this belt although there
must be suit corresponding TO il somewhere.
Parties living In the basement OF the house IN front
OF which the killing took place are under suspicion,
but we have not heard that any authority has
arrested them and examined them separately, or
that any thorough search of the premises has been
made In the meantime theories are very plenty
still, and those in interest are quietly finding what
facts they can to build mp the theory OF suicide and
where facts fail are helping them out with insnua-
tions and reflections upon the honor OF the dead
man, like that concerning his memorandum Of
bonds.
The Litchneld Enquirer, commenting on the
suicide theory, says:-
Now unless il be shown that instead of being
rovoaoresse had ii reality but small amount and that
largely in w% " b ie"n st M
IN Conneccnt bonds e various charities were shams
r. large me Erie nS Mai ees
s na rG C een 0 s d
10 was robbed there Is no question that he was mur
the man The iiprcsasy Of .ei%%oaon by one not
IN desperate The wonderful GINNING ne
details, involving they DO a. most haz;
raSSs attempt those pa%s of wd fictitious make lists e
ss" ss aw Ases %S s a
with suicide there would seem no Just ground LEFT
s. ss % '%ss hs Mih se
facts relied upon as at suicide s are the a,n large s
eaSs al and fs that hour
moase regards rS srs Z
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latons with spain have often Of late such
sT mot 4 that as s s
Rsss
S been The ys Occupied n sons form form
the hotel to the steamboat IIandlng il easily AZ
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whom probably at the corner Of Clinton and
Main street, By passcrsby That his broken
his clothing disarranged does not necessarily imply
noisy struggle would attract the attention
the houses where IL occurred OF
these would strike different minds with different
force but could they seem unaccountable;
whereas the difficulties 10 the way OF the suicide theory
must strike every unpreludced person absolutely in
supcrabe 10 IL certain that among those In Ichfcld
who knew captain Coiyocoresses best and who know
most about his business affairs such idea prevails
THE RIVERSIDE PARK IMPROVEMENT,