The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-10-01
PLAYED A BOLD GAME.
lragicai sensation in the CITY of Wasl

lragieai Sensation in the City of Wash
ington-suicide of Col. Canaday
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 27.-The eli
max to a decade of wild, adventurous
speculation in projects of hazardous
kind IN the hope, always delusive,
that each successive scheme would
tween ESQ and O'Clock this morning
in the suicide of William =. Canadav, Of
North Carolina, formerly sergeant-a at
arms of the United States Senate, and
known TO politicians throughout the
country or years as one of the leading
Republicans in the South. The sui
eide was as full of sensational
preliminaries as any story or a.
legged novel. There was about it
just enough of the element of un-
certainty to suggest q theory, quickly
dispelled on examination, of the COM
mission of the deed by some person
other than the dead man, or another
theory that disbelief in his story of hav
Ing been robbed, had driven him to kill
Himself.
Prior 10 the suicide there was q
scene, about daylight with the dead man
pOuiISt ~ toISi " Il ucoT,
which fsste nings, he told the gentleman
who had been alarmed by his outcrles,
had been bound on him by burglars,
who at the point of knife, had forced
him to open safe and had then ab-
stracted therefrom most of the con-
tents.
Following this scene was another in
witch J. Z. 4. Houghton, captain on
Hancock S staff durlng the war and a
partner of Canadav's, told his partner
that lie 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 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-
Eceman Gilbert, who broke open a
window, the doors having been locked
by Col. Caaaday on the inside, and
found the former sergeant-at-armS o
the Senate lying in bath of blood
dead from the effects of a pistol wound
through the head extending from
ear to ear. \ letter on a desk showed
that aphorisln, that there is never a case
of this kind without woman in ii, had
substantiation in one additional in
stance.
The dead man was found lying on n
cot. He had dressed himself after
Capt. Houghton's departure and was
lying on the cot as il resting but bis
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 head just above the
right ear and had sent bullet
clean through his brain. The Lullet
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
al inquest will be held.
On a desk written on large envelope
was the following note to Miss Moore:
Ny DEAR FRIEND: am not guilty of
any wrong. \ on may trust i'll me. The
people who are prosecuting me are worse
than | am. He is 4 villain tSicl Of the
very largest. God bless YOU always is the
last prayer Of your true friend.
CANADAY.
A note addressed to Capt. IioughtOn
said that after Iioughton's conduct this
morning he (Canadayl had no further
use for life.