The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-10
THE CANNON CASE.
The Matter Conclu-
ded Yesterday.
JOHN Q. CANNON HELD.
To Await the Action Of the
Grand Jury.
MAJOR WOODS TESTIMONY
The Admissions Claimed to Have
Been Made 81 Have Sinned
Against Both"
MAJOR WOODS TESTIMONY.

/ Two well-known Christian minister,
were among the motley crowd that
hung around Commissioner McKay's
Office yesterday morning, and they
seemed to be as impatient as tin-horn
gambler next to them for the Cannon
case to commence. A dude with a
! light mustache, which he tWirled and
twisted as though he were in mortal
agony, leaned up against one side of the
doorway and did his little best to stare
witnesses and principals out of coun-
tenance; a youth who bore every sp-
pesrance of having just recovered from
bad case :.of diphtheria, and another
one who looked like the twin brother Of
misery, were among the audience on
| the spectators bench. - -s...
5All the above, however, and numerous
others, were dismissed before the
case was opened, by Mr., Mckay,
who announced that everyone save the
principals and witnesses IN the case,
officers of the court and newspaper re-
| porters, would be expected to leave tue
room. 1he rooms had been over
crowded the day before, he said, by
men who spat all over his carpet, and
made things very disagreeable. The
ministers and the gamblers INDUCED ia
| q sickly smile and vanished, and with
the Crest of the gang ambled down
stairs, st the foot of which deputy
was stationed to prevent anybody save
those whose business 1t was to be
present from entering This was a
move in the right direction, and was
doubtless appreciated by the principals
in the case. -s. 81.
During a wait of nearly half
an hour, new feature was
developed by the reading to the
defendant of complaint charging him
with unlawful cohabitation, and nam
ing Louie Wells and Annie Cannon as
the ladies. de gave bonds in 5000
with Messrs. Francis Armstrong and
! James Jack as sureties. rs
Judge Smith, the witness whom Mr..
| Dickson wanted the evening previous,
was present, and also Geo. n. Cannon,
county recorder, and several others,
who had been subp@n8ed early in the
day. IL was after IL when the deck
was cleared for action.
MRS. ANNIE CANNON
was recalled. She had been living at
her old home on the farm since she OBJ
tanned her divorce; her sister Louie had
been there almost every night since the
marriage took place to help with wit
ness sick baby, her husband had not
St8id there at all since the
divorce was grated; the deputies called
my attention to a shirt belonging to the
defendant; Mr.. Cannon had come
there the day before. from working
in the field, and changed his
white shirt for a wooden one-some
of his clothes still remain at my house,
owing to my having failed to send them
over; concluded to apply for a divorce
on the day of the confession !; / spoke to
several parties about it, Abram Cannon
among the number; at my request
Judge Smith came to my house to see
me about it, and asked me several ques-
tons; he told me that I would have to
make a complaint, and told him the
grounds which 1 had-the confession
OF my husband; l did not tell him
with whom the crime was committed;
told them wanted the custody Of the
children, ana as far as alimony was
concerned tn Jught there would be no
trouble about that; l asked Abram
Cannon to attend TO the matter with
me, and Abram and the Judge came
down to my house with the complaint
the next day; did not see Mr.. Cannon
when 1 signed the papers; the complaint
was shown to me, and they asked me
to read it. did so. told them it wag all
right, and signed It; | asked the Judge
that the matter be kept as quiet as
possible, and urged upon him imme-
date action; Judge Smith said it might
be arranged IN g day or two, but he
would have to see about it; l went up
to the court room the next morn
ing. having received word TO go
before Judge Smith; l went alone;
got there about o'clock,
and saw Judge Smith; there was no
one else present. was sworn and he
asked me some questions.
To Mr., RICHARDS-After was sworn
he asked me If the facts as stated in the
complaint were true, and | told him
that believed they were; both the
Judge and Abrsm were present when l
signed the complaint; Abram went out
soon afterwards, and think he took
the papers with him; Abram did not
come back to the room; but they both
went home together; 1t was after
Abram had gone out that We had the
talk about coming up; l believe the
Judge did tell me 1 might come up the
next day just before he left. (After
psuse) Yes, ne did.
GEORGE u. CANNON
sworn: The complaint in divorce vas
drawn by me on the Sth day of Sep
TENDER in my Office, at about
noon; completed II during the after
noon; it was between u and 5; it was
drawn at the instance of Abram Can
non; | gave the complaint to Judge
Smith that evening about 5 clock;
had no conversation with John Q. Can
non.
To Mr.. RICHARDS-The complaint
might have been delivered as early as 2
or 5 O'Clock; I handed it to Judge Smith
duri:ig The afternoon.