JACK CANNOT'S DEATH

Evening Star, Issue 20254, 15 August 1929, Page 8

JACK CANNOT'S DEATH

VERDICT OF SUICIDE PUBLIC SUBSCIMKTION RAISED. Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. SYDNEY, August Id. (Received August 15, at 10 a.m.) The coroner returned the finding that Jack Cannot committed suicide while temporarily of unsound mind. The public subscriptions resulted in over £GUO being raised for his wife and family. ("Theatrical folk and lislcncrs-iu throughout Australia received a shock on August 2 when they learned of the tragic‘death of Jack Cannot, the popular comedian. whose, body was discovered by the police in scrub on the MaroubraBeach foreshore. A packet contain ujj a remanant of strychnine was found m his pocket. His widow received a letter from him telling her where the body would be found Cannot was the damn in several pantomimes,_ and more recently was a broadcasting artist.}