The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-31
THE TRAGEDY NIGHT BEFORE
LAST.
II was PrecOncerted Thing.
Death of Officer CanaIIy.
Officer Dew believed to be MORALLY
Wounded.
Death of Onicer CanaIIv.
Arrest of all of the Assassins.

Arrest Of all Of the Assassins.
In our issue Of yesterday we gave an ac-
count Of a horrible afrsy on Cherry street,
near Broad, in which two well known police
men were wounded, and then gave it as
our opinion that Canally would not survive.
The surgeons did ell in theirpower for him,
but he expired, in the greatest agony, yes
terday morning. He received number Of
stabs, both in the head and brea the
weapon employed by the desperadoes being
a surgeons amputatiDg knife, some six
inches long, which had been procured by
one Of the villains, for the express purpose,
no doubt, Of revenging himself on some
body for fancied insult received on satur-
day night, at the Broadway Varieties.
officer Dew is very badly wounded-one
Of the stabs penetrating TO his lungs, end
he is bleeding profusely, internally. His
wounds are looked upon as necessarily nor
tai, and it ia thought he cannot survive
more than day or two. He does not feel
much pain, but is in a sort Of stupor all the
time.
It is now apparent that the soldiers pre-
meditated the attack. On Saturday last,
they, with some Of their comrades, became
drunk and boisterous at the Broadway
Varieties, and the police were called upon
to keep them quiet; and their bloody work
night before last was in revenge for this. We
understood, night before last, that they were
drunk and fighting when Cannally at
tempted to dispense them; but this, we
now learn, was not the case. They were
entirely sober, and were only pretending to
quarrel aud fight, in order that the police
might come upon them, and thus give them
an opportunity to kill some Of them, in re-
venge, merely because they did their duty
on Saturday night.
The disturbance was Immediately in
front Of Caually's door, Mr.. c. having al
ready gone up stairs to retire TO bed. On
hearing the disturbance, he looked out the
window aud eeing the soldiers fighting, as
he supposed, he went quickly down to the
street; but no sooner had he reached she
pavement in front Of his own door, than
they seized him, carried him across the
street, and stabbed him.
Mr.. Dew came up just at that time, and
was about to arrest the vii aims, when they
leaped at him, and, though he knocked enc
Of them down, he was himself felled by the
knife.
By this time crowd of people reached
the spot, and one Of them seized one of the
men, when he drew the knife on him, but
revolver was at once presented to his head,
and be delivered himself and weapon up
without a struggle. He gave his name as
Peter Anthony, and he is a member OF the
10th Regular Infantry. He was lodged
in jail, and viii be tried by the civil au-
thorities, unless demanded by the military.
The remaining men made their escape,
and ran into camp, where they stated that
they hal been out, with several comrades,
and that they had been attacked by citizens,
and several Of their number killed. Capt
Collier, Of the regiment, Immediately went
to the city, to ascertain the truth Of the re-
| port, and when he found out the real state
| of the facts he took Capt. Everett, of the
police force, with him 10 the camp. Col
| Sibly, the commandant, ordered the guards
to be strengthened, and the strictest watch
| kept for the men, lest they escape; and told
Mr.. Everett that they would be delivered
over to the civil authorities in the morning.
Daylight came, however, but the men
were missing. Mayor Brown then called
on General johnson, who directed him to
go to Colonel sibley, who detailed men to
| aid in hunting the villains up. This the
Mayor did, and a very efficient set of OIL
| GERS and men, were selected, with view to
sending them in all directions, in search
Of the fugitives. How they had escaped
was a mystery; but Colonel Sibley deter
mined to ferret the matter out, as he was
confident they could not have passed the
guard, without collision.
During the day, however, some Of the
! officers servants were in a barracks where
there was some straw, and there they found
the naen-two corporals, named Moore and
Allen-and they were at once taken into
custody, and sent to jail, and will be tried
by the civil authorities for murder.
Mayor Brown and the city authorities are
greatly indebted to Colonel sibley and
Lieut.. Mackey, his Acting Adjutant, and
other officers Of the regiment. They did all
in their power to a;d in collecting the men,
when it was supposed they had escaped I;
and promptly delivered them at the Jail,
when they were discovered in their hid
ing place.