Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-30


Interest in the Cannday mystery-for II is so
termed now--increases continually. Every in
telligent person who has read the story of the
suicide, with the narrative Of the relative
events which Immediately preceded and
followed it, seems to be satisfied that
the half has never been told. Scraps Of testi-
mony and rather solid fragments Of suspicion
have been formed into links that some day will
almost surely cucumber the movements of at
least one man who is now ap-
parently free, but who at heart
is already prisoner. Theory after theory has
been tried and discarded. and AZ last there has
come to more than one investigator testimony
which points conclusively to q conspiracy Not
a conspiracy which looked directly for the
death Of Col. Canaday, but plot in which the
colonel himself figured merely one Of three
| THE MYSTERY THIcKESs.
1t would seem now though there really
were other men than the colonel in the Office
before O'Clock on Tuesday morning, and if such
was the case the mystery thickens considerably
In the room Immediately below that in
which the colonel was found tied to
the dumb waiter door slept two little
They were awakened long before daylight by
| sounds on the floor above-sounds Of voices
and footsteps Not unnaturally the children
were very much frightened, so much SO that
they feared to walk through the hallway to
their mothers bed chamber, in the front part of
! the house.
After awhile the little girls slept again, and at
8 O'Clock, or perhaps a trife earlier were once
more awakened, this time by the sounds Of
breaking and falling glass. Fragments. some
OF which were quite large, dropped into the
yard, not more than five or six feet from the
window of the children's room
Quite soon thereafter there was pounding
upon the dumb waiter door in. the room
above, and as the girls bed was at the
foot Of the waiter shaft thew heard
every noise quite plainly. They heard Mr.
| Stevenson converse with the colonel while he
was cutting him down and it was just about
then that they summoned up sufficient courage
to tell their mother of the disturbances.
WHAT THE INDICATIONS ARE.
The Indications therefore, are that some
time during the night persons unknown entered
either No. 712 or TIA by the legitimate front
door entrance; that they moved around and
made considerable noise not so long before day.
light. and that when they departed Col
Canaday broke the window and gave himself
the appearance of having been bound and
gagged. 1t may even have been that the col
onel was tied and that the other party or parties
broke the window and managed to escape by
wav OF the alley without any one seeing him or
them.
WHERE ARE THE WATCHES?
Perhaps the most frequently repeated query
at this time is, where are Col CANADIANS
two watches?' At least one of them was
in his possession on Monday evening, but
neither of them has yet been found by
Mr. Collahan, the collector appointed by the
court. To a certain extent Mr.. Houghton will
be held responsible for the missing valuables,
for it was he who went through Col. Canaday's
effects on Tuesday.
He secured all the KEYS Immediately after
the suicide and he kept them and used them
until yesterday evening. Mr. Collahan has
them now.
All through this morning Mr. Collahan and
Miss Claggett-Col. Canaday's private secre-
tars--continued their examination of the col
onei papers, but found nothing of any i'm
portance; no evidence of partnership between
the colonel and Houghton. Apropos of that
partnership claim made by Mr.. Houghton, it
can be stated positively that Col. Canaday told
a friend quite recently that Houghton was Sc
curing pension and claim business for him on
commission.
INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS.
Until it has been definitely decided by the
courts that Col. Canaday and J. Q. A. Houghton
were or were not partners in business, there
will be trouble over the little property the
colonel left behind him.
There was trouble yesterday, Collector ]. C.
Collahan being on one side Of the question and
J. Q. A. Houghton on the other. Houghton
wanted to take possession Of the offices as soon
as the appraisers had completed their inventory,
but Collahan would not give way; in
fact he made his title just n tri-
fe the more satisfactory rivetted
it, as it were-by having lock expert change
the combination of the safe. Unless Mr..
HoughtOn Is q mind reader postmaster in
practical theosophy he is completely on the
outside 80 far as most Of the coloners private
papers are concerned.
The question of par tnership is one over which
there Is much controversy and the greater Tart
of it springs from the diverse statements made
by Houshton. When first asked to produce
documentary evidence of partnership with
the colonel Mr.. Houghton said that could
not be done because Cauaday had burned the
papers. Yesterday he said he had a document
which would prove partner ship. Miss Claggett,
who Col Cana lays confidential clerk,
states most positively that there never was {,
partnership and that the only semblance of it
was to be found in Houghton's declarations, the
like Of which were never heard during the
colone!s lifetime. In an application for an in
junction to restrain Collector Callahan
from retaining possession Of Col Cana
days papers Mr.. Houghton alleges that q
partnership was entered into November Is,
1891, he investing therein the sum Of $1,000
Yet, when Col. Canaday introduced Houghton
to Lieut.. Amiss last Sunday. he informed the
AcutSiH'ut tuab AiouSutou WAS SIMPLY lrlcnu
and client, who had desk room in his Cana
dy's) Offices.
Judge Bradley issued a rule to show cause
returnable on Monday next
NO DOUBT ABOUT THE SUICIDE.
The theory that Col. Canaday did not COM
init suicide, but was murdered-advanced by
several people who are taking more than q
little interest in the case-is entirely un-
tenable. The STAR has found witness
who was i'll Col. Canaday's room while he
wrote the farewell notes. This witness is
little colored gIrl-a daughter of Mrs.
Jones and favorite with the colonel She
| remained in the apartment until the
colonel asked her to 60 down stairs, saying: Il
want to be by myself for minute or two."
When she went out he locked the door, and be-
| fore she had fairly gotten down the stairs she
heard the pistol shot that ended all the colo
ners miseries on this globe.
TO BE BURIED THIS AFTERNOON,
Col Canaday's remains will be buried this
afternoon in Rock Creek Cemetery. Funeral
services will be conducted at Speare's undertake
| ing establishment. No. $40 street, by the Rev.
$. II. Greene, pastor Of Calvary Baptist Church,
commencing at 4 o'clock. The pall-bearers
will be ex-hcpresentative Nichols. Monroe L.
| Fox, ID. Med. Lindsay, j. NJ. Hines. G. E.
| Wesner V. Singebury and w. s. Odell,
| Mr.. II. l.. Atchison has leased the houses 7l2
and ia 10Th street from Mai Armes This dis
| poses of Mr.. Houghton as a tenant Of anv sort.
Count Mitkiewicz's Libel Case.
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