Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-10-05
PLAYED A BOLD GAME.
Tragica1 Sensation in the City of Wash
ington-Suicide of Col. Canaday,

Tragical Sensation in the City of Wash
ington-Suicide of Col. Canaday.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 27.-The Cit
max to q decade of wild, adventurous
speculation in projects of a hazardous
kind IN the hope, always delusive,
that each successive scheme would
bring large wealth, came some time be-
tween $50 and 7 o'clock this morning
in the suicide of William ?. Canaday, Of
North Carolina, formerly sergeant-at-
arms of the United States Senate, and
known to politicians throughout the
country for years as one of the leading
Republicans in the South. The sui
eide was as full of sensational
preliminaries as any story or al
legged novel. There was about it
just enough of the element of I'M
certainty to suggest a 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 to the suicide there was a
scene, about daylight, with the dead man
bound by slight cord fastenings to door,
which fastenings, 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 open safe and had then alb
stracted therefrom most of the con-
tents.
Following this scene was another in
which J. q. A. Houghton, captain on
HQn 20 CT q
partner of Canaday's, told his partner
that he did not believe the story and
would have it investigated by
the police. Capt Houghton accused
Canaday of an attempt to defraud him
(Hougbton). subsequently to q re-
porter of the Associated Press Capt.
Houghton said that yesterday evening
he had put $2,0 600 in bills in the safe,
the com bination 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
window, the doors having been locked
by Col. Canaday on the inside, and
found the former ergeant-at-arms of
dead from the effects of a pistol wound
through the head extending from
ear to ear. A letter on a desk showed
that aphOrism, that there is never case
of this kind without a 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. Houghton's departure and was
lying on the cot as If 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: l am not guilty Of
any wrong. on may trust in me. 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
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