Litchfield enquirer., 1872-06-13

| possession. The fact of the loss of so large an amount of bonds coming out, also, Capt Rylands went back convinced that it was case of murder. The preva- lence of the suicide theory among the in- surance agents had apparently kept the Bridgeport police from making much ef- fort to discover the murderers for we can account for their supineness in no other way. @.-..-.=.s''s- ''-'
 The funeral of Capt. Colvocoresses took place at St. Michaels church in this place, on Thursday afternoon, the Rev. Mir. FL liot of the Congregational church, and Dr. Henry of the Episcopal, conducting the l services. esaa
 On Monday his executor, MT. Geo. M. Woodruff, proved the will of Capt. Col vocoresses. Itgives his wife the use of one half his real estate, all his household furni- ture and the use of one-ffth of the rest of his property. To his son is given one- 1 quarter of the remainder; and the other three-quarters are given to his executor in trust for his three daughters, the income being given to their separate use. The will is dated March 9, 1872, and by cod icil the following specific legacies of Conn. bonds (now missing) are given to the fol- lowing chariteis: Two thousand dollars to the Bible So- ciety.
 One thousand dollars to the town of Norwich, Vt., the income to be given to indigent inhabitants not paupers.
 One thousand dollars to the selectmen ! of Litchfeld the income wherefrom is to ! supply the almshouse with one weekly re- ligious and one secular newspaper, and to provide the means of transportation for such paupers as may desire to attend church. .zr. One thousand dollars to the Society for the Relief of the Destitute Children of Seamen.
 A legacy of 5000 is given his mother, and another of 5000 to erect a monument to the memory of Capt. Alden Partridge. The legacies of Conn. bonds will have to be made up out of the deceased's other estate in case those bonds are not recov- cred
 The following rewards have been offer ed; 0,OO0 by the executor for the recov- cry of the bonds $3OO0 by Mrs. Colvo- coresses, and $2OOO by Governor Jewell for the discovery of the criminals We hear of no reward offered by the authori- ties of Bridgeport.
 On Saturday one of the prisoners who was discharged from the Bridgeport jail the day of the murder, named Sanks, was arrested in Jersey city, drunk, and boast ing of having killed half dozen men in Bridgeport. The Jersey City authorities at once telegraphed to Bridgeport asking if the police there wanted Sanks. The Bridgeport authorities telegraphed back that they did not want him. He was held for drunkenness, however, and interview ed by Sun reporter, to whom he stated that after leaving jail he had pawned his coat for g., and went to New York on the very boat Capt Colvocoresses was to have taken. He claims that he never heard of the murder till Friday morning The theory of the murder advanced by the re- porter of the Sun, the only one of the New York reporters who has given any at tention to the case, is a very plausible one to say the least. Connecting the fact of the discharge of Sanks and another thief named Swords from the jail in a destitute condition, that day, with the further fact that two fellows were seen at the Steamboat landing who did not go away in the boat, he infers that they were waiting for chance to steal money from some of the passengers going on the boat, in order to get the means of going to New York
 They wanted to reach New York by the boat. 1 They went to the boat early in the evening to watch their chances. That they were thieves scarcely admits of doubt. Doubtless they hop ed to make a raise in the crowd that usually | awaits the departure of steamboat that would enable them to pay their passage. While wait tug and watching, they spotted Colvocoresses.
 
 he was good customer. They noticed the care with which he guarded that little satchel, the same as the hotel people subsequently noticed the same circumstance. They saw him purchase his 1 tickets, procure his stateroom, deposit in the room his larger satchel, and then start up town. 1 They knew that, of course, he would return to the boat. They had no need to follow him, but simply to prepare and watch for his return. But 1 they were unarmed, and in no condition for such l an adventure as this. They would have ventured in their emergency, in little pocket-picking in crowd, as they were; but to encounter an able 1 bodied man with possible treasure in his keeping was another matter. For this they must be arm ed Lying moored along the docks of Bridgeport are at all times 8 number of sloops, schooners, fishing smacks, and other craft, in 'he cabins of which, if any weapons are kept they are precisely such clumsy, old-fashioned, patched up affairs as the one these chaps provided themselves with from some such source in their hurry thatnight. They doubtless stole their pistol and it's equipments from some vessel lying at no great distance from the steamboat wharf from which it has not yet been missed, it may be that the vessel left port ! the following morning before the loss was dscOv- cred. Being thus provided they concealed them selves in the darkness of Clinton street and wait ed for the return of their victim. But he was not going to pass through Clinton street, and hence the necessity for conversation at the head | of that street to induce him to take that route His obstinacy was only overcome at the last mo- ment when his haste to reach the boat before she | pushed off overcome all scruples about the route taken. Hz+ Whether this is the correct theory of the mur- der or not, it is plusiable theory, and one that contains several circumstances that must be ex- plained by the Bridgeport police before the pub lie will acquit them of censure for not immedi- ately following up the clues. This was no ordi- nary murder. Captain Colvocoresses was a quiet, orderly, peacable gentleman, temperate in his habits accustomed to interfere with mo- body's business but his own, and highly respect ed by all who enjoyed his acquaintance.
 The foregoing theory seems to us decid- edly the most plausible yet advanced.
 Thereisno doubt that two men left Bridge port, that night, going west on the rail- road track, that they were seen next'day from the cars. and that Sanks did not turn up in New York till Friday. Circumstances
 so suspicious would seem at least to re-