Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-13
ENDS HER LIFE.
Trouble and Remorse Cause
Former D. A. G. Student
to Suicide.

Last Friday, in an East Side
lodging house, Miss Wavelle
Cunningham suicided by inhal-
ing gas. Much local interest
attaches to this case, as the young
lady attended OAC in past years
and had many warm friends in
this city. Of late she had ex-
perienced serious trouble, and the
following facts are from the Tele-
gram:
Lying still and cold on a slab
in the morgue is an attractive
Iyoung women supposed to be
miss Wavelle Cunningham, of
[Pendleton, daughter Of Mrs. B.
cunningham of that place, who
committed suicide at a rooming-
house at 6o4 East Alder street
this morning by inhaling gas
from a rubber tube which She.
had connected with a jet in the
room that had been rented by her
yesterday. Coroner Finley has
i wired to Pendleton in hope of OBJ
tanning information of the un-
fortunate and to what disposition
shall be made Of the body. This
is believed to be the young wo-
, man who was arrested in San
Francisco on charge of cashing
a $I6o check on A. & c. Felden-
| heimar in this city, when she had
/ no money in the bank. The
, matter was settled out of court.
j From evidence gathered at the
scene Coroner Finley says the
woman appeared there yesterday
: and rented room, agreeing to
| stay a week. She said she want
!. ed to be where it was quiet, say.
] ing she was from Stanford Uni
versity and was feeling i'll. She
: left the house at 5 o'clock yester-
day afternoon and returned again
e at $50 O'Clock, and remained
: quietly in her room after that.
!. Early this morning the inmates
j of the dwelling detected the odol
d ofgas, and on entering the apart.
: ment found the young woman
: lying at the foot of the bed ar.
d rayed in her night clothing.
o She had removed a pillow from
r the head Of the bed and placed i
at the foot, connecting the tub,
with the gas jet she covered tn
lower end OF the hose with tn
pillow and after turning on th
o deadly fumes, had evidently de
= liberately prepared for the end
n for her features were compose,
:. and displayed no signs of pain.
: Corener Finley says the bod
e was yet warm when he reache
'e the scene after a physician ha
II made an examination and foun
lr tnat lite was extinct. The suicid
y had written a letter and then de
ID [stroyed it, pieces of the missiv
lie being found on the floor, an
s. from this the address of Mrs. E
ID Cunningham was learned and o
one corner of the paper was
lg message to the coroner savin
ID that she had committed suicid
lr and not to hold an inquest. TIL
to deceased was about 23 or "a veal
r of age, of medium height an
n- rather stout. Her clothing Wa
n. of good quality, but quietl
at made, and she had a trunk, su
re case and grip, together with
III small amount of change.
Miss Cunningham was arres
It. ed in San Francisco last Satu
to day, being wanted in Port1an
x on a charge of passing a wortl
y less check to the amount of $16,
to Preparations were made by IL
nd local police to send Detecti,
'e. Resing after her and bring b
'es back for trial. The case, hoy
d. ever was settled, and the woms
lse was released Monday afternoo
he Shortly after her release she stal
ID ed for Portland, arriving he
lat last night. Miss Cunningha
wo did not bear a bad reputatio
ne and was raised by respectat
as parents. For a while she was
student of Pacific University
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