New-York tribune., 1911-10-01

I Imouwcalth, 5000 the Mutual $1,000; the
+ Mutual Benefit, $1,000 the Equitable, No-
coo: the North American, $1,000; the Con-
necticut Mutual. $1,000; the Manhattan
/ g.. 900: the New York Life, $500; the State
/ Mutual, 5000; the Atlantic Mutual, S,oo;
the Phoenix Life, $1,000 and the Manhat-
/ tan. $500 lie already had $500 in the
New York Life.
lie paid the premiums by check on the
/ Union Trust Company. II was early In
/ 1872 that he took out this insurance. on
/ the night of June 3, lS2, Captain Colvo-
/ coresses was found dying in Clinton street.
Bridgeport. Conn, two days after he had
left his home in Litchfeld, Conn. for New
York City to keep an appointment with
. the insurance agent through whom he SC
cured his policies.
/ In his box of special deposit in the First
/ National Bank Of Litchheld were found
memoranda of stocks and bonds, though
no numbers Of certificates were given on
the memoranda These stocks and bonds
amounted to about 10000. Captain Colvo-
coresses on the afternoon and during the
early evening of June 3, was seen to guard
with unusual caution a black morocco
H''A'
at the Sterling house in Bridgeport and
at a nearby restaurant When this bag
was found under a railway car on the
| Naugatuck wharf with the end slit open
| by a dull knife empty, and when the old
! fashioned percussion-cap horse pistol was
/ found diagonally across the street, about
sixty feet from where the captain fell. it
, was generally believed that Coivocoresses
/ was known to be carrying MS bonds in the
satchel and that he had been followed and
murdered just as he was going TO board
the steamboat for New York city. Great
/ Indignation was therefore aroused through
out the country that the insurance com
panies involved refused 20 pay me insur-
ance on the ground that he had taken out
! the policies with the express purpose in
I mind OF killing himself and defrdudng the
| companies
! The investigators for the insurance COM
panies found that although the captain
coat and vest were open, as though as
/ sailants had torn them open, neither
was torn nor were any buttons off: the
4 shot had been fred so close that the man
shirt was set on fire. and the light served
to guide the officers to his body. But the
/ chief thing that convinced the nyesu-
gators that Colvocoresses had committed
suicide was the fact that the old horse
pistol would tit into the black morocco
( bag which was found under the railway
car in only one position and that there
was a dent in the satchel, which was worn
shiny. just where the trigger OF the pistol
came. Added 10 this was the fact that
Colvooorcsses never had any bonds OF the
had 5000 worth OF them listed In his
memoranda The original holders Of those
bonds. it was proved. had never parted
with any OF them IL is a difficult matter
to trac. bonds but the iu,ostisators traced
lcw moro the captain VAS supposed 10
: .aye had and found hc had never bought
auy-had never been financially able to-
buy
u was Impossible TO prove conc'usivclv
that COlyocorcsses al made way with
himself although the companies were nor
ally certain OF it, so g. comproia.ss was
effected with his heirs.
Death by drowning has always teen g.
fayoIite way Cf disposnG OF a body by
those seeking to defraud an ms france COM
pany This was the method hit upon by a
man Of the name of Bowling and his
brother-!n-law. Walters. few years agt
at Tybee. an island in the Atlantic just of
the coast from Savannah. Ga The two
men were farmers near columbus, Ga, and
started enc Saturday for Tybee to spend
SUNDAY They went on an excursion and
bought round-trip tickets. on sunday even
irg shortly after o'clock walters re-
turned TO the hotel carrying n" outer gar
m.uts ot Bowling, ard reported hat Bowl
ing had sai1 ar wasn't going tu leave Iy bee
without rp in the ocean. and had
stripped off his outer clothes ard sprung
into the water. Walters asserted that q
bis wave came in and ca. ght hi~ brother
iu-law and drowned him, carrying the body
cut 10 sea IN the strong undertow
The investigator for the Mutual Reserve
company found the man alive, after the
agents OF three other companies had sent
In reports that the man was undoubtedly
dead. and advising their companies to pay
the poll,le5. This one investigator felt that
Bowling was not dead, and induced tha
other companies TO hold mp tho checks.
As an example OF what these secret ser
vice men for the insurance companies are
called upon 10 &c. here are the steps by
which this Investigator traced Bowling:
At tho hotel iu Tybeo ne discovered that
Bowling had called for hot water-to take
medicine with. he told the bellboy Wal
tcrs's swora narrative o. events however,
sfid nothing about any medicine
Convinced that Bowling had left the ISL