The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-28
SUICIDES
Wretched End Of a Noted Politi-
clan and Spectator.
DEATH RATHER THAN DISGRACE.
Accused Of Robbing . Safe, He Shoots
Himself to Escape Arrest-His Sc
astIs Creosote Enterprise.

WASHINGTON CRY, Sept. 27.-William p.
fAnady. of North Carolina. ex-sergeant-
alarms of the senate, committed suicide
here this morning by shooting himself
through the head. He had been in
financial difficulties for some time.
Canady occupied rooms at 7f2 and TIA
Kent street as lodgings and Office quarters,
where. in partnership with Capt. J. @. A.
Houghton, he conducted the business of
losning money on securities such as banks
refused to handle, and was launching a
company to guarantee patents.
The first scene in the tragedy was about
daylight this morning, when gentleman
Yooming above was attracted to Canady's
room by the latter's cries. He found
Csnady gagged and bound, and the latter
claimed that this was the work of burg
lars. who had forced him TO open his safe
and take out its contents. When Capt.
Houghton arrived he told Canady he did
not belleve the story, and thought it was
ruse to cover up the theft by Canady of
5000 which Houghton had put in the safe
on the previous evening. Houghton then
vent out to get policeman, and when he
returned he found Canady lying dead,
bathed in his blood, with bullet hole
climax to decade of wild and adventur-
Gus speculation in projects of hazardous
kind in the hope, always deiusive, that
each successive scheme would bring large
wealth.
Il was about Sis this morning when
Charles II. Stevenson, an employee of the
fish commission, who roomed ON the sec
ond floor. just above Canady's rear Office
Yoom. came down stairs, having been
alarmed by the latter's outcrys. He found
Col Canadv bound to closet door in the
room in which the safe stood, and across
the hallway from his sleeping quarters.
The safe was open. Strewed over the floor
was great litter of papers, and i'm the fire.
place was charred mass Of burnt papers.
Col. Canady was bound to the door, with
his hands behind him. The Irvine with
which he was bound was very ordinary
stuff, such as is used to bind large parcels,
20 that man of ordinary strength ought
to have been able to break it with ease. In
his mouth was q gag made of a torn piece
Of his nightshirt, which was found across
the hallway. 1t had been loosened SO he
was able to make an outcry.
Col. Canady's story was that some time
after O'Clock in the morning three burg
lars forced an entrance through a rear
window of the room in which he was
found bound and gagged, into the room in
which he slept They bound him at the
point of revolver and then forced him to
90 across the hallway to the safe and open
II. They distracted a great part Of the
contents. burned some papers and departed
after binding him. Capt. Houghton was
sent for. and to him Canady related the
story, which his partner refused to be-
heve An examination of the papers
showed that considerable number of ne
gotiable notes made by Col. Canady had
been burned, and every book containing
records of Indebtedness against him had
been destroyed. Affirming his disbelief in
the story. Capt. Houghton said he would
90 for the police and have the story in
sestigated. Officers Hodges and Gilbert
accompanied him on his return to the
house. The servant girl told them that
she thought Col. Canady had shot himself.
window at the rear was forced from
the outside and the dead man was found
lying on a cot. He had dressed himself
after Capt Houghton's departure and was
lying as if resting. but his clothes and
the sheet and pillows of the cot were COW
cred with blood. A 32-caliber revolver
was by his side. The desperate man had
pointed il at his head just above the right
ear and sent bullet clear through his
BRAIN The bullet came out just above the
left ear and dropped on the floor. Death
must have been nearly instantaneous. The
body was removed to an undertaker's
rooms and an inquest will be held
On the desk. written on large envel-
ope, was the following note to Miss
Moore:
Ny Dear Friend: / am not guilty of any
wong. lou may trust me. The people who
aye prosecuting me are worse than am. He Is
avillsin of the very largest God bless you al
Ways. is the last prayer of your true friend,
CASADY.
note addressed to Capt Houghton
SAID that after Houghton's conduct this
morning he (Canady) had mo further use
Tor life."
The police are investigating the state
msni of Capt. Houghton that he put 81. 900
In the safe yesterday. How Canady could
make away with it under the circum-
Stances is a difficult question to answer.
Miss Moore. whom Canady visited yes
terday evening and 10 whom he left note,
sa young lady of excellent family and
good reputation, whom Col. Canady knew
In North Carolina. She lives here with a
married sister. Canady's call was a brief
Social one
William p. Cauady was born in Raleigh, n.
Yin l>i1. lie Was attending school in that
eV when the war broke out At the age OF 16
re raa away aud Joined the Confederate army,
hwhlch he served four years. At the age OF y
ne was elected mayor OF Wilmington. \. C..
Which othca he held for several successive
seafs. lie VAS appointed collector OF the port
g Wilmington ia ISIS, ana served until lsss
TOT Two years be WAS vice president OF the
sesteFu North Carolina Railroad, and for one
.ssr receiver of the Carolina Centrai road. In
No lsSj and lSS2 he was u candidate fer con-
kfsss on the Republican ticket On the first
oFeasaoa he reduced the Democratic majority
if0m S,e0 20 lao. The next time he was
e'ah'ed cut, aud the third time he came
WITHIN l9o votes OF being elected. The Demo
9s's worked gerrymauder on him after that.
Aa wiped hin out lie was elected sergeant
sssfias oi the United States senate In 1888
iais efiee he resigned recently to engage in the
ssseee CT law ia Washington City. For thir-
@en Years Ar- Csuady was proprietor OF the
s huntingdon Posi-, aud his editorials through
I sas' period we're marked by strength and
pAViosisn. FOR the last eight years ho had bean
v~ President oi the Union League OF America
As was handsome man sad good politician.
Aa SaS iof several years member OF the lie.
FsS''ean national committee
ahIsm T. Csnsdy was known indirectly in
<e'Ss trolsa his connection with bust
$50 men he.e- lie wss much interested ia Gre
sehg plies, and was al different times rresi-
sA'S q three companies organized for this par
~ o2S 81 these was the Puget sound Cr~o-
"aS tempsay. whose buildings Still stand on
s' eoUipsnys grouai on the moth side Of sal.
1Va esS, s,s'Ye lakes shipyard, AZ Ballard. He