Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-10-06
PLAYED A BOLD GAME.
Trasical Sensation in the City or WASH
inpton-Suicide of Col. Canaday.

rr.s;cal Sensation in the City OF WASH
inpton-suicide of Col. Canaday.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 27.-Ihe Gil
may To q decade of wild, adventurous
speculation in projects OF hazardous
kind IN the hope, always deiuslve,
that each successive scheme "ouio
bring large wealth, came some tlme De-
tween $50 and O'Clock this mornlns
in the suicide of William T. Canaday' OF
North Carolina, formerly sergeant-at-
arms of the United States Senate, ana
known to politicians throughout the
country for years as one OF the leadlng
Renuhlicans in the South. The sui
eide was as full of sensational
nreliminaries as any story or al
legged novel. There was about IL
lust enough of the element OF un-
certainty to suggest theory, quickly
dispelled on examination. OF the COM
mission of the deed by some person
other than the dead man, or announcer
theory that disbelief in his story OF nay Y,
ing been robbed, bad driven HIM TO XIII
himself.
scene, about daylight. with the dead man
bound by slight cord fastenlngs to q door,
which taste ninps. he told the gentleman
who had been alarmed by his outcries,
had been bound on him by burglars.
who. at the point of knife, had forced
him to oDen a safe and had then alb
stracted therefrom most of the con-
tents.
Following this scene was another IN
wlich T. @. A. HOughton, captain on
Hancock's staff during the war and
partner of Canaday's, told his partner
that be did not believe the story and
would have it investigated by
the police. Capt. Houghton accused
Canaday of an attempt to defraud him
(Houghton). Subsequently to a re-
porter of the Associated Press Capt.
Houghton said that yesterday evening
he had put $1,000 in bills in the safe,
the combination to which was known
only to himself and Col. Canaday.
The third scene was that which was
visible almost an hour later, when
Capt. Houghton returned with Po-
liceman Gilbert, who broke open a
window, the doors having been locked
by Col. Canaday on the inside, and
found the former ergeant-at-arms of
the Senate lying in a bath Of blood,
dcdV 1IOul 0hCClo VI o. piCCoA
through the head extending from
ear to ear. A letter on a desk showed
that aphorism, that there is never a case
of this kind withouta woman in it, had
substantiation in one additional in
stance.
The dead man was found lying on a
cot. He had dressed himself after
Capt. Houghtons departure and was
lying on the cot as ii resting but his
clothes and the sheet and
pillows of the cot were covered
with blood. A 32-caliber revolver was
by his side. The desperate man had
pointed at his lead just above the
right ear and had sent a bullet
clean through his brain. The bullet
came out just above the left ear and
dropped on the floor. Death must have
been instantaneous. The body was re-
moved to Undertaken Spears room and
an inquest will be held.
On desk written on large envelope
was the following note to Miss Moore:
MY DEAR FRIEND: am not guilty of
any wrong. on may trust in ne. The
people who are prosecuting me are WORSE
than | am. He is a villain (Sic) OF the
very largest. God bless you always is the
last prayer Of your true friend,
CANADAY.
A note addressed to Capt. Houghton
said that after Houghton's conduct this
morning he (Canaday) had no further