Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-28
SPECULATION WILD
Causing Loss After Loss, With
Hopes OF Wealth
ALWAYS LEADING HIM ON,
No Tics Himself Win Cords and SAYS Nc
Has Boon Robbed Hls Partner Tells Him
Nc Doesn't Believe Him ard canaday
Blows Out His Brains.

hhAN1 W hifNNtNfN wiz ana NNntufNN
speculation IN projects Of hazardous
kind In tho hope, always delnsiye, that
each successive schcmo would bring
large wealth, camc this morning Ia tho
sulcidc OF William +. Gnngday, OF North
Cai'aina, formerly scageantat-arms Of
the United States senate, aud known 70
politicians throughout tho country Tor
yoara a. one Of the leading Republicans
IN the South
The suicide Is iull Of sensational pro-
liminarios.
Prior 70 the suicide thoro waa a
scene, about daylight, With the dead
man bound by a elight cnisl 20 the
iastoninga OF door, which instonlnrs
he told gentleman who had been
alarmed by HE outcries, had boon
bound on him hy burglars, who, at the
point OF knife, had forced him 10
ppcn the faro and thon abstract most OF
il contents
Following this eccnc was another 10
which J, o. A, noughtun, captain on
HanoockA stah during the war, and
partner Oi InnadAy told his partner
That no did not bolloye tho story
and would have Il Investigated by the
police.
Hpughton accused CanRday of an at.
tempt 10 deirAud him lllauEh toni Sub
ecquontly 70 a reporter OF tho Assnri.
ntod Press, Captain Houghion stid
that Yesterday ovpninn hu had put sa000
m bills iR tho safe, Tho combination
was known only TO himself and 10 Col
uncl Cnnadny
Tho third aoonc was that visible
almost nn hour lntor whom CAPTAIN
Aoughton returned with the policeman
GUbprt who hrolyo Upon the window,
the duors having boon locked by Canady
on tho inside, and found tho forinor
nerpeantet-nrnis lying Ia hnth VI
blood, dead from tho effects Of pistol
wound through his head
Capt lluuPhton says ho was u part
nor OF Canaday He soums 10 be tho
man who Hurnighod lnat year, The money
for the enterprises, ~ which Canadny
WAS tho promoter The mlsinvss oai-
ricd on hoHldes that Of the various GU
tcrprlsos, wai that Of general pension
and claim agency. Looming money,
probably az high rates Of interest on ~
euriiios Of u character such ~ banks do
not readily take ~ Insects, and the in
Huranoc " patents, This last being done
under the name 81 the Patent guaran-
toe company.
Yesterday evening the two partners
were together for short time and
about q o'clock wont out together Be.
fore leaving Captain lioughton says he
deposited $1,000 In tho safe. Thr mon
oy, he says was Ia notes Of denominn-
lions " five, ten aud twonty dollars.
After Col. Canadny and his partner
separated on Tho street. the old man
spout about half nm hour with Miss
Moore inlrly good looking young WO-
man, about twnnty-one years Of age
About bih this morning Chas sto,
yenson, employed in tho hsh commits
sion, who rOomol Just above Cnnnday'a
ulilco, came down stairs, alarmed by
outcrlea. io found Cannday bound 10
the closet door Ia the room
IA which The Raiu stood and
across the hallway from his sleeping
quarters The safe WAS open Strcwn
over tho floor WIS "a great litter Of pap.
era Of one kind or another and IN the
irenlnee wac rhnrrod mnsn of burned
pnpors, Candy was tod 70 the door
with HE hands behind him. The twlno
with which no WIS bound was Of worry
ordinary btuh, such az Is used 10 bind
large parcels, also that a man OF ordi.
mary strength ought 10 DO able TO break
with ease. In his mouth wasn gag made
NAN W ~ iNNM IN''N VI mn uNEuI NIlNII
which was found across tho hallway.
II had been looaencd 20 he was ablo 10
mako an Oitefy.
Cunadaya story was that sometime
nfter2 o'clock ~ the morning throo
burglars forced an entrance through |
a raer window and AZ the point OF re-
yplyer foroed him 70 90 acr0Hs the hall |
way 70 the safe and open H. They alb |
piraciod greater part OF tho contents, |
burning some papeir and departed aftar
binding him.
liouRhton was sont for aud 10 him
Canaday related this story, which his |
partner refused to b8lieys. Tho ex. |
animation papors showed consid. |
cradle number Of negotiable notes /
made by Cannday had been burned, and |
every book containing tho record Of |
Indebtedness against him had bean do
struyod
Captain lIoughton said no wonld 90
for tho police ard have the story IN. |
yosiignted Officers Hodges and On. |
bert accompanied him on his return 10
the houne. The servant cir! told them
she thought Cannday shot himself Tho
window nt iho rear vas forced from tho
ouiside, and the dead man was found
lying on cot He dressed Himself
alter ituNHntgnh departure, and WIS
lying on the cot a. II resting, but
BIS clothes, and the sheet and
pillows on tho cot wore covered With
blood with o % eaiiber rogolyor by his
aide.
The desperate man pointed at his
head Just above tlie Night ear and sont
tho bullet clear through his brain. The
bullet came out just above tho loft ear
aud droprcd on the floor Death must
have been inataNt Ona desk Nrittu
on a lnrgr envelope was tho following
note h Miss Moore
Ny Dear Friend.
u am not guilty OF any wrong. Yon
may trust IN me People who aro pef-
scouting me are worse than ! am. ffe
Is q villain OF tbe very largest. God
bloeeyou aiwaya IS my inat prayer
"Xour truo friend.
The motto addressed 20 Captain
Holghion said, that after Houghtinf
conduet this morning he lCanadayi had
no further use Tor life.
The puiicc ara investigating the
statement Of Hughton, o. DO
eject that be pu. 1900 10