Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-28

the outside, and the dead man was found
lying on the cot He had dressed himself
after Captain Houghton's departure, and
was lying ON the cot as if resting, but bis
clothes and the sheet and pillow were COW
cred with blood. A 32-caliber revolver was
by his side. The man had pointed his re-
volver above his right ear and the bullet
passing through the head came out at the
left side. Death must have been instanta-
neous The body was taken to Undertaken
Pears rooms On desk written in large
envelope was the following note to Miss
Moore.
My DEAR FRIENp-I am not guilty Of any
wrong You may trust in me. The people
who are prosecuting me are worse than l
am. He Is a villain tsic) OF the very largest.
God bless you always, is the last prayer OF
your true friend, CANADAY.
A note addressed to Captain Houghton
said that after Houghton's conduct in the
morning he (Canaday) had mo further use
tor life."
Houghton's Story Excites Suspicion.
The police are investigating the state
ment. of Captain Houghton that he put
$1,000 in the safe yesterday evening. How
Canaday could have made away with 1t is,
under the circumstances, difficult ques-
tion to answer Mr. Stevenson, who dis
Colonel Canaday told him that no money
was gone, and that only papers had been
taken. II, as Captain Houghton says,
$1,000 had been placed in the safe, and is
now missing, it seems remarkable that the
dead man said nothing about it.
Captain Houghton asserts that he ad-
vanced Colonel Canaday from time to time
about $4,000 and that there was destroyed
about 100000 stock of the Houghton Ma
chine Manufacturing Company, and also
certificates of stock in the Northwest I'm
provement Company and other enterprises.
Captain Houghton is described in the city
directory as q machinist.
Miss Moore, whom Mr.. Canaday visited
yesterday evening and to whom he left a
note, is young lady of excellent family
and good reputation, whom Colonel Cana
day knew in North Carolina and is living
here with her sister, whose husband is as
slstant curator of the National Museum.
Colonel Cansday's visit was brief social
one.
His Career in Office.
Colonel w. p. Canady was formerly a
Confederate soldier, later stanch Repub-
hcan and for several years past the North
Carolina member of the Republican Ma
tional Committee. He WAS one of John
Sherman's Southern lieutenants in 1880, 1884
and 1888, and did much to keep the South
ern oficeholders and negro delegates in line
for the Ohio Senator. In 1883 it was
Canady who advised John Sherman to
publicly charge that Alger had purchased
the Sherman delegates from the South.
Colonel Canady was populur and gener-
Gus man, whose ruin seems to have been
brought simply through his inordinate de-
sire to make fortune. That he was per-
sonally brave and self-sscri6cing was shown
in his war record and during the years
when he fought the battles of the Repub-
licans in North Carolina, when such q
course meant permanent social and busi-
ness ostracism. Colonel Canady, as Ser
geant at Arms of the Senate, was an able
and efficient officer.
On the day of Harrison's Inauguration he
was the most conspicuous man in the vast
crowd assembled on the east front of the
Capitol as he stood in the cold, drenching
rain holding an umbrella over Harrison's
head during the delivery of the inaugural
address Mr.. Canady's tall form is promi-
nent in all the photographs of the scene
which was afterward fifty called Harrisons
baptism.