Marion County OR Archives Obituaries.....Cannon, Bobby November 1930
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Oregon Statesman November 8,1930
Cannon death Found Suicide
Story Of Events Leading Up To Tragdy Is Told In Coroners Court
Mrs.Bobbie Cannon,found dead in her cell in city jail Thursday morning,was 
declared by a coroners jury Friday to have died of strangulation,self 
inflicted.She was picked off the street,early Wednesday morning in an 
intoxicated consition.
Members of the coroners jury  were Henry Meyers,Grant Day,Fred Delano,Paul 
Johnson,William Gilchrist Jr., and K.H.Pickens.
Material witnesses were Mrs.Zoe Jones,chambermaid at the Belview hotel;Wilbur 
Pursley,son of the proprietor,and Dewey Short,Local typewriter man,The 
stories  of each of these tallied  with the others woth the exception of the 
matter of obtaining of the liqor which brought about the arrest of these three 
and the late Mrs.Cannon.Mrs.Jones and Pursley both claim that the deceased 
brought the drinks,and Mrs.Jones adds that Mrs.Cannon arrived already lightly 
intoxicated.
At 3:30 a.m. Wednesday,Mrs Cannon was at the bottom o fthe stairway leading to 
the hotel,according to Marion Putnam,night officer,who reported the affair to 
Sergeant Cutler by telephone.She was parly intoxicated at the time and claimed 
that her husband  had beat her.On the way to the phone Punam saw a man whom he 
was unable to identify,emerge from the street entrance,walk part of the down 
the street,pause a moment and then run back up the stairs.When Putnam returned 
from his call,Mrs.Cannon was gone.
While Putnam was looking for her,she was across the street at the foot of 
another set of stairs,talking to Officer M.W.Miller,who ntered the story at 
this point..Miller placed her in a police car and took her to headquarters 
where hse was booked and confined to the omaen's cell.Mrs.Cannon continued her 
story of having been beaten by someone and thrown out of her hotel room.
Officer Cutler,somoe time later,heard a strange noise from the jail corridor 
andinvestigated.He found Mrs.Cannon with a hnadkerchief around her neck and 
tied in a knot.Entering the cell,he removed the handkerchief and later had to 
remove the blankets from her bed becuase of her attempt to choke herself with 
that.He also summoned the police matron.
in the morning,when Cutler went off duty,he told his experience to Sergeant 
Thompsaon,who relieved him.Thompson said he would watch her.He made two or 
three trips to the cell doo in response to Mrs.Cannons request for cigarettes.
After some time,Thompson said,she seemed to quiet down,and when he eturned he 
perceived her feet projecting from behind a screen.On the next teo trips the 
feet were still in the same position.Thompson believed that she had sat on a 
chair to rest.

Mrs.Cannon had a bruidse on her forehead over her left eye.All of the party 
agree that she probably got it between the time she entered the Belview and 
when she went downstairs after the party.
Part of the mystery was cleared up when young Pursley admitted that he was 
probably the man Officer Putnam saw.He claimed he returned to his room in 
order to avert trouble.
Short was the first to leave the partry,claim the rest,and he went to the 
Senator Hoteldireting a taxicab  to go to the Belview for a passenger.He 
immediatley went home.Short stated that the black eye he carried was a result 
of the impact of his wifes fist on that part of his anatomy.
It was testified that although Mrs.Cannon was badly intoxicated,she descended 
the stairs alone.None of the party saw her again after she left.

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