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Big Premiums on Death From the New York World
The piece reviews historic life insurance cases of Colvocoresses and Walton Dwight, showing how large policies were taken in the months before death and the debate over whether deaths were murder or accidental. It recounts Colvocoresses’s Naval career, Bridgeport murder scene details, and Dwight’s arrestee autopsy, plus a survey of American and British high value policies held by nobles and notable figures, illustrating how insurers scrutinize suspicious deaths and policy use as collateral.
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New York World
Capt
Colvocoresses
Walton Dwight
George M. Colvocoresses
Hal
Bridgeport
Conn
Misolonghi
United States Blue Jackets
Annapolis Academy
United States Navy
Litchfield
New York
Colvocoresecs
Irving
Walton Dwigh
Binghamton
Dwight
Francis Delafield
Burr
Fowler
Hartford Group
Col. Dwight
Cyrus Strong
Broome County
Duke of Newcastle
Marquis of
Anglesea
Earl of Fife
Sir Robert Clifton
Great Britain
Dom Pedro II
Brazil
Napoleon III
Eugenia
W. K. Anderson
Titusville
James Park, Jr
Pittsburg
Hamilton Disston
Philadelphia
John Howes
St. Louis
W. H. Langley
Gallipolis
J. B. Stetson
Pierre Lorillard
F. W. Dovoe
Cyrus W. Field
Frank Jones
Portsmouth
N. H
Amos Whitley
Springfield
B. F. Sturtevant
Boston
P. Allis
Milwaukee
John Gibb
Charles Pratt
B. A. Moon
BH. D. McKay
J. B. Cornell
W. H. Belknap
John Sinclair
de Witt OC. Wheeler
Rufus Hatch
William Fullerton