Litchfield enquirer., 1872-06-13
THE BRIDGEPORT MURDER.

oi the iuentincation of the pistol by bar tender turns out unreliable. Two thieves discharged from the Bridgeport jail on the day of the murder, were missing after that missing and suspicious have been aroused against others, but no positive proof has been obtained against any one of connec. tion with the murder.
 i There is much talk, as We should expect, among the insurance agents, of suicide and the Courant of Friday, mislead doubt. less by reports of those agents, gives con- siderable countenance to that theory. With this theory, however, the nature of the wound, the kind of weapon used, and the place where it was found, are incon- sistent. The weapon was an old French horse pistol. about IA inches long, with a defective lock altered over from flint to percussion, and broken stock. It is such weapon as no one at all acquainted with the use of fire arms would ever have selected for such a purpose, and had it been either long in possession of the de- ceased or recently bought by him, it would have been almost certain to be identified. The wound was not through the heart or head, but through a part of the body where one acquainted with such things would naturally have feared that wound might occasion a lingering death and ter rible suffering. Furthermore, the pistol was found over twenty feet distant from the body of the deceased, on the opposite side of the street, where it had been thrown with such force as to break the stock again. That man whose spinal cord had been severed by pistol shot, as the post mortem examination disclosed. could have had sufficient strength to have thrown the pistol such distance and with such force seems absolutely incredible. Sub sequent evidence establishes the fact that three men were seen talking together at the corner of Main. and Clinton Sts., but a few minutes before the pistol shot was fired. Two witnesses testify to this fact, a conductor of a freight train on the New Haven road named Edward Jones, and a German woman, both of whom heard the pistol shot. It is probable that the three men were Capt. Colvocoresses and his murderers. Had the men no guilty req son for concealing their presence at that place they would undoubtedly have heard of the murder and have come forward be- fore this to throw what light they could upon it.
 Whatever doubt there may have been before, however, is settled by the discov- cry that bonds owned by Captain Colvo- coresses to the amount of $SO, ,OOO, par val ue, are missing. Various lists of his bonds are found among the papers of the de- ceased of which we give the last in full:
 MAY 18th, 1872.
 The following are the securities which I now hold, and those marked with the letter D shall, on my arrival at New York, place in the Safe De- posit, 12O Broadway, Equitable Building, for con- venience:
 D Central Pacific, 1st mort, 6 per cent. $1OOOO D Eight Union Pacific, 1st mort, 6 per ct. 5000 D Twelve Conn. Valley, 1st m., 7per ct. 12,OOO D Twenty-nine U. s. Gov. 5-2Os '67, Jan.
 and July. 29OOO D Fifteen U. s. Gov 5-2Os, '65, May and
 November. 15OOO D Six Connecticut State 6s 6,000 Five Danville, Urbana, Pekn and Bloom
 ngton Railroad bonds. 5000 Ten Shepaug Valley shares. 1000 Twenty zone Rochester Water Loan bonds, q ,0O0
 also hold Life Assurances to the amount of $19s, ,0oO,* and Coupons due 1st May, on United States Bonds. G. M. C..
 *It was, in fact, $193, ,500,
 The foregoing list was made-at the sug- gestion of his executor, MT. G. M. Wood ruff, whom he informed sometime since of his intention to go on a trip South. The securities marked D are all missing and it is believed that they were in the .satchel found cut open on the railroad track. Now, unless it can be shown that instead of being a man of handsome prop erty, as was supposed, Capt. Colvoco- resses had in reality but small amount, and that invested largely in Rochester Water Loan Bonds, that is lists of bonds were fraudulent, that his legacies of $5, ,O0O in Connecticut Bonds to various charities was sham, that the $21, ,OOO he realized on investments made, before his large in surances, in Erie and Pacific Mail stocks, and sold since, have been lost in subse- quent operations, the whole theory of the Courant falls to the ground; for if he was robbed, there is no question that he was murdered Taking into consideration the high character of the man, the inn probability of self-immolation by one not in desperate circumstances, the wonder full cunning necessary to have conceived such plot and contrived its details in- volving as they do most hazardous at tempt to palm off fictitious lists of prop erty on those who would make the sharp est inquiry; taking into consideration, also, the awful hardihood of consummat' ing such f1aud with suicide, and there would seem no just ground left for the ory so entirely at variance with all the probabilities as we'll as with all the facts of the case. The only facts relied upor by the Courant as indicating suicide art the large insurance of the deceased, the fact that no struggle was heard, and that an half hour of time Cat the largest esti mate) was occupied by the deceased il going from the Sterling House to Clinton Street. AS regards the former, there il certainly weight in the reason given b. Capt. Colvocoresses for insuring so largely It is known that our relations with Spail have often been of late such as to rende war not improbable. In that case the de ceased's expectation of being called int active service would have undoubtedl, been realized and his outlay justified Even without any such anticipation, Tiff
 insurance has been viewed by many as
 profitable form of investment. The tim | oA,1 &0 | !,