The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-06-14
COMMITS SUICIDE
PENDLETON GIRL ENDS HER
LIFE BY BREATHING GAS
IN PORTLAND LODG-
ING HOUSE.


ING HOUSE.
Arrested in California for Passing
Worthless Check-Girl Said to
Have Been Unsound in
Mind-Russian War
Ships 1nterned at
Manila.
Portland, June e.-Evening Tel
egram: Lying still and cold on
slab in the morgue Is an attractive
young woman, supposed to, be Miss
Wavelle Cunningham, of Pendle-
tou, daughter of Mrs. B. Cunning
ham, of that place, who committed
suicide at rooming house at 694
East Alder street this morning by
inhaling gas ftom a rubber tube
which she had connected with jet
in the room that had been rented
by her yesterday. Coroner Finley
has wired to Pendleton in the hope
/ of obtaining information Of the un-
fortunate and as to what disposition
shall be made of the body. This Is
believed to be the young woman
who was arrested in San Francisco
on charge Of cashing $160check
on A. & G. Feldenheimer, in this
city, when she had no money in
the bank. The matter was settled
] out of court.
] From the evidence gathered at
the scene Coroner Finley says the
woman appeared there yesterday
land rented a room, agreeing to stay
la week. She said she wanted to be
where it was quiet, saying she was
j from Stanford University and was
4 feeling i'll. She left the house at 3
| O'Clock yesterday afternoon and re-
turned again at 5 o'clock, and re-
tmained quietly in her room after
that. Early this morning the in
mates Of the dwelling detected the
Iodor Of gas. and on entering the
, apartment found the young woman,
lying at the foot of the bed, arrayed
in her night clothing.
She had removed pillow from
. the head of the bed and placed i.
at the foot, connecting the tube
with the gas jet she covered the
lower end of the hose with the pill
, low and, after turning on the dead
3 ly fumes, had evidently deliberate
) ly prepased for the end, for her fea
! lures were composed and displayed
= no signs of pain.
, Coroner Finley says the body
was vet warm WHEN he reached tht
scene after a physician had made
q an examin alton and found tina
). life was extinct. The suicide hao
+ written letter and then destroyed
q it, pieces Of the missive being
n found on the floor, and from thi
a the address of Mrs. B. Cunningham
! was learned and on one corner o
e the paper was message to the col
r oner saying she had committed su
J. licide and not to hold an inquest
q The deceased was about % or 2
r years of age, of medium height AM
!. rather stout. Her clothing was c
good quality but quietly made, an
n she had trunk, suit case an
Il email grip, together with sma
,. lramount of change.
# Miss Cunningham was arreste
~ in San Francisco last Saturday a
~ ternoon, being wanted in Portlan
y on a charge Of passing a WORTHLESS
=. check to the amount of $16O. PREF
r. arations were made to send Dete'
20 tive Resing after and bring he
. back for trial. The case, ho4eve
re was settled and the womsn was II
se leased Monday afternoon. Shortl
+. after her release she Started fl
ii Portland, arriving here last nigh
to Miss Cunningham did not have
~ bad reputation, and was raised t
in respectable parents. For viii
8. she was a student of Pacific Un
h versity at Forest Grove. She W;
in Portland two weeks ago.
Ia John Cunningham, of Pendleto
he Or, arrived in Portland this NOR
IT, ing and will leave for Arlingtt
as this evening withsthe remains
de his daughter, Miss Wavelfe ca
n ningham, aged 20 years, who cor
O. mitted suicide by iahaling gas
u her room at 694 East Alder site
an yesterday morning. The father
n heart-broken over the affair.
n, the Cunningham family there we
IN two children, son who died fro
IS consumption about a year ago, al
i'll Miss Wavelle Cunningham, "
took her life yesterday after a shc
lpoyioa of ,,,,7cb froubla Tho fo{