Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-09
Cannon is Bound Over OH
Two Charges i'm the
Sum of 81, 900.
INTEREST RUNS HIGH.
Recorder Cannon Shows Disposition
TO Bend to the viii Of Brother
Richards-Judge Smiths
Divorce.
'ImiyE slNNED AGAINST BOTH MY WIVES"
The Interesting Testimony of Major
WoOds-A Private LETTER In
trOduced as Eyidence-LOuie
Wells INDICATED.

The usual crowd gathered at Commits
sioner McKay's office this morning, more
eager than ever to listen to the particu-
! lars in the notorious Cannon case.
\ new interest was Infused into the ex-
animation by the arrest OF John c. Can
non upon another complaint, this one
charging him with unlawfully cohabiting
with two women, Annie Cannon and
! Louie Wells, between the lst day of
January and the 9th day Of September,
of the present year. The defendant was
placed under an additional bond of So 900
for his appearance to answer to this
charge. Francis Armstrong and Jim
Jack became his sureties. The examina-
ton on this charge was proceeded
with in connection with the other
The examination was resumed by the
recalling of
MRS. ANNIE CANNON.
The lady said: | have lived down on
John @. 'sfarm since the divorce ; the house
belongs to John O. Louie has been stay
ing there with me nearly all the time
since the marriage John @. has not lived
there since the divorce; he has taken
meals there | remember the morning
that the deputies came there; remem-
Der seeing a gentleman's shirt that had
been worn on chair in certain room
Mr.. Cannon came over that morning,
and taking off his white shirt, he put on
Il colored one; he had not taken his
clothes away from my house | first
thought OF getting divorce on the Sun
day afternoon before it was obtained
that was about the first thing | spoke of
after | heard OF the confession; Abram
Cannon came to my house day or two
afterward, and | asked him to help
me get divorce; on Wednesday
Judge Smith came out to the house
and when told him wanted divorce
he said | would have to get out COM
plant; he asked me what grounds it was
on, and | told him; he did not ask when
or where the offense was committed
Abram asked me ii | wanted to say any
thing about the children or alimony, and
| told them that | would like to have
the custody of the children and | thought
we could arrange about other matters
on the evening OF the Sth Abram Cannon
and Judge Smith came to my house and
brought the complaint; | took it into my
mothers room and read it, then signed
it; | urged the Judge to hurry the matter
and have it granted with as much secrecy
as possible; the Judge told me that I
could come up the next day at any time
and he would grant it he said he would
have to see about it; the Judge then
left that afternoon Abram came and
told me that | could go up the next
morning; this was over an hour after
Judge Smith LETT my husband was not
at the house that afternoon; the next
morning came to town and went to the
County Court room and met Judge Smith
there; no one else was present; he babe
me good morning and told him that |
had come to get the divorce; | was sworn
and he asked me ii | was OF the same
opinion, and the divorce was then
granted; nothing more was said he
asked me nothing about the charge.
To defense: The Judge asked me if /
believed the allegation in the complaint
to be true, and told him yes; the Judge
and Abram were present at the time the
complaint was signed Abram then went
out; it is my impression that he took the
complaint with him; he did not return
to the house; Abram and the Judge
went home together; there was no one
present when the Judge told me that
might come up the next day.
Q.-After having told you that he
would let you know when to come, did
not Judge Smith tell you that you could
go up the next morning?
A.-(After considerable thinking) Yes.
Excused.
GEORGE NJ. CANNON,
County Recorder was the next witness
called. He testified as follows: drew
the complaint in the Cannon divorce
case; | did it in my office; | commenced
it at about noon on the 9Th day of Septem-
Der; | finished it toward 5 o'clock; |
drew it at the instance Of Abram Cannon;
delivered it to Judge Smith at about 5
o'clock.
To defense-I fix the time by the fact
that | delivered the complaint before |
left the office.
Dwight it not have been as early as
or 3 O'Clock that afternoon.
AIN tone OF anything-you- want
Brother Richards) Yes, it might have
been that early.
To Mr.. Dickson | did not mean to
say that it was as late as 5 O'Clock, and if
| said that | was mistaken; | thought it
was shortly before | closed the office;
saw Judge Smith in the hall and handed
it to him there. Excused.
JUDGE SMITH
Was the next witness: | have seen this
complaint; | received it from George NJ.
Cannon soon after O'Clock on the Sth of
September; Abram came soon afterward
and we then drove to John Q. g place we
started at about 3 o'clock we got there |