, 1892-09-28
SUICIDE.
An Attempt to Cover Financial
Troubles by Supposed Robbery.


His Note TO Miss Moore Denying
the Charges of His Prosecutors
No Further Use for Life After
Discoveries of Fraud.
WASHINGTON, September 2s.-The sui
eide of William P Cauady, ex-sergeant-at
arms of the senate, is the one absorbing
topic of conversation in this city. Oanady
occupied rooms at 712 and ia Kent street
as lodging and Office headquarters, where
in partnership with Colonel ]. Q. A,
Houghton, he conducted the business OF
loaning 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 a gentleman rooming
above was attracted through Canaday's
door by the latter's cries. He found Can
/ ady gagged and bound and the latter
claimed this was the work of burglars who
had forced him to open the safe and take
out the contents. When Colonel Hough-
ton arrived he told Canady he did not be-
lieye the story and thought it was a ruse
to cover up the theft by Cahady of two
thousand dollars, which Houghton put in
| the safe the previous evening Houghton
then went out to get a policeman and
when he returned found Canadv living
dead, bathed in blood With a bullet hole
through the head.
IL seems there was woman in the case.
a MISS Moore, for whom he left a note. de-
claring that he was guilty of no wrong and
asking God to bless her, as his last prayer
Ihe tragedy was the climax to a decade OF
wild, adventurous speculatiOns in projects
OF hazardous kind, in the hope, ALWAYS
deluslye, that each successive scheme would
bring large wealth. 1t was about quarter
atter ilve IN the morning when Charles H
stephenson, an employe in the fish com.
mission, who rOOmed on the second floor
Just above Canady's rear Office room, came
down stairs, having been alarmed bv out
cries. He found Colonel CanadV bound ia
a closet door in the room in which the safe
STOOD, and across the hallway from his
sleeping quarters.
The safe was open, and streWed over the
1oor was great litter of papers, and in the
fireplace was a charred mass of burnt
papers, Colonel Canady was bound to the
door with his hands behind him. The
tWlne with which he was bound was very
ordinary stuff, such as is used to bind large
parcels, so that man of ordinary strength
ought to have been able to break it with
ease. In his mouth was a gag made of a
torn piece of his night shirt, which was
found across the hallway. 1t had been
loosened so that he was able to make an
outcry.
Colonel Canady's story was that some
| time atter2 O'Clock in the morning three
burglars forced an entrance through a rear
window of the room in which he was found
bound and gagged, into the room in which
ne was sleeping, bound him at the point of
a revolver, then forced him to 90 across the
hallway to the safe and open it. They alb
stracted great part of the contents, burned
some papers, and departed after binding.
Captain Houghton was sent for and to him
Canady related the story, which his partner
refused to believe. Examination of the
papers showed that considerable number
OF negotiable notes made by Colonel Can
ady had been burned and every book con-
tanning records Of Indebtedness against
him had been destroyed, affirming his dis
belief In the story, Captain Houghton said
he would go for the police and have the
story investigated. Officers Hodges and
Gilbert accompanied him on the return to
the house. A servant girl told them she
thought Canady had shot himself. A
window at the rear was forced from the
outside and the dead man was found
dead lying on a cot. He had
dressed himself shortly after CaDtain
HOughtOn's departure and was living
as if resting, but his clothes, and the sheet
and pillows OF his cot were covered with
blood, and thirty-two calibre revolver
was by his side. The desperate man had
pointed at the head just above the right
ear and sent a bullet clear through the
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 the undertaker's
rooms, where an inquest was held.
On the desk, written on a large envelope,
was the following note to Miss Moore
"MY Dear Friend II am not guilty OF
wrong. You may trust me- People who
are prosecuting me are worse than am.
He is villain of the very worst type. God
bless you always, is the last prayer of your
true friend, Canady."
! note addressed to Captain Houghton
said that after his (Houghton's) conduct
this morning he (Canady) had mo further
use for life'