The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1874-04-07 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH.  One of the most wonderful murders ever recorded, says the Brooklyn Argaa, was that of George M. Cclreton's'. e, awaits to the United States Navy. He was about 60 years of age rich, and lived happily with his family at Lichfield, °Ono. His life was insured in 21 unipanies in the aggregate for 193.000 dots. He was ou hi. wsy from his home to New York to secure farther insursou on his if. when he was supposed to have been murdered. That a man should be found shot by • bullet, with so large an insurence upon his if., and no murderer suspected upon whom to feces the crime, of course led to the theory of suicide. It wes half-past ten o'clock on the night of Jane 3, 1872, that Captain Colvoooressu left an hotel in Bridgeport for the stesm-boat which was to leave for New York at eleven. His stepped into a drug store and purohseed some paper, and asked the nearest way to the boat. He was never seen alive after that moment. • police-officer heard the report of • pistol jut before the boat was leaviog. lie went in the direction of the report, and there round the man dying from the I Huta el a shot in the left side, the ball having auodered the spinal column. The vest was unbuttoned, and yet the ballet-bole was through it, conveying the Impression that the man himself bad cautiously coos. milted self.murder. But the pistol was found on the opposite side of the street, where it bad been thrown against the fence with sufficient force to break the stook. Ti. satchel was found the next day secreted under • oar some distenos off, but in it were powder mad bullets fitting the pistol. Just before eleven o'clock a railroad oonductor, peening by the junction of the street where the aseptain's body Was found, saw three men standing and acting suspiaiunsly. As he teethed his residence, tee blocks away, he heard the sound of • pistol shot. Soon thereafter the steam-boat whistle blew. Taal the time was fixed. At the same time • woman swears that the was on the opposite side of the street from the conductor. She passed the three men, and woe frightened by their appearance; she ran into the house of • friend, and asked for au euort home. While a geoileman was prepariug to sooompany her, the report of a pistol was beard by ail the members of the family, followed by the hasty steps of two mita running pest his bouse. Here is a publics street of • populous eity, bet wean half-pest ten ands quarter to lion a summer evening, • pistol use fired, and a man was altno.t immediately fueod deed of a pistol wound. Yet for over 20 months no oleo to the murderer hue been found. to the desk Of tbe deceased at home was lodged a woefully prepared memorandum of securities. It d ea not seem to be known that his family were aware of his possession of these securities. Their theory, however, is that he had them, and was ounvoylog them to New York. Under this state of tithe, all of the insurenee sompaniee having risk upon the itie of Captain C— refused to pay, &sluing thst be bad ocanocitted minute. Their theory was that be di i not have the securities, but deposited the rnetuorandum for the purpose of deoeit—that he pl...ced his satchel nudge the freight our, where it WM fuuuci,od tLen w•Auel ai..rig the street, opened his vest, :usd shot hintee'sf —in the act throwing the pistol serou the wsy. They have traced every bond ever issued by the Con. neutiout Valley Railroad, and Sod that none of them were ever In the possession of the decou.d. On the other hood it is asserted that it can be shown when, where, and of Wham he pu,clineed these securities. On investiog the weenie...noes, two of the 'neural/ea oompacies —the Nur York Life and the Nautilus— b,,suln so well asii.fied that it was murder and not suicide, thst ous i•aid lie po.roy of 10,000 dole and the otter 5,w0 dials. Tee remaining companies' are still ocutesarog the claims brought against tent by this. is who:is/swear the policies were made. It is out doly a straws awe and • remsrkable tragedy —intessified in Interest by the extreerdinary amount of nearly 200,000 d,4. inauranoe, and that no arrests have tern made upon ono aide—and upon the other, that three suss pleious toes were been following him, and that a large amount et Hounded was supper...el to bets his POl4OllllOO, mid missing from his utohei. The mystery may never be unrateited.  An otter, weighing 24gitek. end measuring four feet from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, has been eaugl.t in the river Kidder, near Salisbury. Tb, I..obourers* Unioa Oaronitft has dean east in CICO damages tor tnlol on Rey. J. ditargsoo, •iosr of Holt. haw, ta stating that the res. gentleman took two tons of charity coal. Two burglars were seen to Isere the house of Yr. Beas, at Wis.,leer on Tuesday. and were obaaeJ, wit,st ono fired a revoleer at the pursuing constable mad this beat Mao about the Mad vita It. However, both were eoplarei,