Litchfield enquirer., 1872-08-08
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 Not long since True and Only Reliable Account of the Colvocoressesh Homicide ap- I peared in the New Haven Palladium, from the pen of a reporter who was with, if. | not of, the aloud of insurance agents that hovered about Litchfeld shortly after the murder. This so-called report was sim ply labored opening for the defense in in the actions which the insurance com panies threaten to stand rather than. pay the policies held by the executor of the deceased. On Monday, the Hartford Courant publishes another True and Only Reliable Account which resembles the Pal ladium report so closely as to indicate q common origin.
 These articles show such an evident bias against the deceased, and are so plainly written for the purpose of manufacturing public opinion in favor of the insurance companies, that we are surprised to see papers of high standing, like the Courant and Palladium, publishing them without correction or qualification in their edito- rial columns. A brief reference to the facts and to the articles in question will show their gross unfairness a'-as far
 1. These reports credit every statement made by the very insurance agent who "worked" Capt. Colvocoresses up to talk ing such heavy insurance upon his life; they repeat this mans assertions which represent the deceased as lying to him most constantly and recklessly and all this in the face of the fact that Capt. Col vocoresses was reputed among his ac- duaintance scrupulously honorable man in his dealings, and one peculiarly cautious and accurate in statement i's@ ta4st 7.-
 2. That the pistol which caused Capt. Colvocoresses' death could have been so heavily loaded as to recoil between twenty and thirty feet, across the entire street, is hardly credible. Had such been the case, however, the extraordinary noise that must have followed such an explosion would have been noticed by some of the many who heard it, and we have seen no testimony to any such fact. ''' Ai.ah 7.l5
 3. The wound was not through the heart as the Courant article represents, but six inches below it, where lingering death might naturally have resulted. and where Capt Colvocoresses could never have in- tentionally shot himself. 'H . .s
 4. One proof, at least, of struggle ap- pears in the fact that button, torn from the pantaloons, was found hanging to one of the suspenders of the deceased. 5. Not word is said in the Courant re- port to explain the presence of two or three men at the entrance of Clinton Street, near the time of the homicide, who have never been found since. Nor is any re- ference made to the important testimony of Mr. Vessels who saw them, or other men, hanging about the place just before the pistol was fired, and who, the night be- fore, overheard conversation between two men watching the boat for some one they expected and did not find. 6. The claim that the entire issue of bonds of the Conn. Valley R. R. Co.,, probably 2,000 in number, have been so carefully traced that twelve of them could not pos sibly have been missing in June, is ridi- culous. Admitting that the insurance agents have looked up the persons who hold the entire number nosD; if any of them came by their bonds recently, and under suspicious circumstances, would they have acknowledged such face? ..
 ial knowledge of the results of investiga- tions by the executor of the deceased, it is no secret that Capt. Colyoeoresses was, before his death, in regular receipt of large sums of money from coupons, from bonds that cannot now be found. ul