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Dunstan Times, Issue 520, 5 April 1872, Page 2

The following is taken from a New York paper Mr. Comer Colonel Fisk’s private secretary, is the administrator of Fisk's estate. On Fridayhe went to the Grand Central Hotel, and demanded the personal property taken from the Colonel’s pocket after the shooting. This property included Fisk's immense diamond pin, his diamond sleeve-buttons, his diamond ring, and one thousand five hundrrd dollars, in one hundred dollar bank notes. Ins'ead of giving up the property, the proprietor of the hotel presented a bill for two thousand five himhred dollars, for allowing Colonel Fish to die in his house. Mr. Comer repudiated the exhorbitant bill, and again demanded the personal property. The proprietor refused to surrender it until his bill was paid. Mr. Comer will take legal action to recover the property. Mr. Comer says that Fisk’s estate will not net over One-hundred dollais the lawyers have eaten up nearly everything he possessed. Mrs. Fisk has determined to sell her horses and carriage, and has reduced her establishment. Fisk’s life was insured for a small amount. Such is the story told by one of Fisk's intimate friends. Since then Coroner Young told a reporter that he holds the property taken from Fisk’s person in the Grand Central Hotel, subject to Mrs. Fisk’s order. The velocity of the galvanic current in iron wire docs not exceed eighteen thousand miles an hour.