The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-13

THE MURDER.
Latest Concerning the Ter
rible Tragedy.
Testimony of the Daughter
of the accused.
importance of a post mortem
Examination.
THE MURDER.

The murder of Dora Heilwagner is still
a subject of general conversation of those
engaged about the Court House, and the
public generally have manifested their
interest in the details of the dreadful
affair. On every hand the regret is ex-
pressed that no post mortem exa mination
was conducted, as if such a medical inves
tigation of the remains had been made, the
work of securing evidence to convict the
perpetrator of the tragedy would have
been greatly simplified.
AS 1T IS.
The officers are not positive whether the
woman came to her death from blow in
the head or from the pistol shot wound
also supposed to have been discovered in
the region of the other injury.
The hope is expressed that the coroner
or some other officer will either have the
remains exhumed and a post mortem held,
or else bring the matter before the Board
of Supervisors and Ehave the Board appro-
pirate sufficient sum for such post NOR
tenn examination.
| SHERIFF ANKRUM.
yesterday visited the scene of the trag
edy and made a personal examination
Of the spot where the body. was found and
also the locality surrounding the house of
the deceased. He states that in a corn
field, nearer the house than the lot in which
the body was found, he discovered the
| impress of human form, showing that the
murdered woman had originally occupied
that place. and had then been removed to
/ ed
1 THE DAUGHTER
| of the old maa-father-in-law of the muir
| dered woman, who is now in Jail charged
with the murder-gives the most damaging
evidence yet submitted against her accused |
father. She says that on Monday night |
Sept. 5th, her father came home from
Hampton in an intoxicated condition. |
After eating his supper he sat up until she
retired, when he left the house and went
over to the residence of the murdered
woman She could hear Dora and her
they were carrying on q conversation. |
At o'clock Tuesday morning her father
aroused her, and ordered her to get his
breakfast. In preparing that meal she
passed out into the yard and ran against a
bag hanging on the clothes line. The bag
was wet and she asked her father concern
ing it, but received no satisfactory reply.
1t has been stated that the old man had
frequently been engaged in taking bag
at night and catching chickens, and the
girl supposed that such was the case on
night in question.
AFTER BREAKFAST,
the old man visited the corn field in close
proximity to the murdered woman's home,
and shocked corn on the identical spot
where the impress of a womans form was
afterwards discovered. When he had com
pleted this work and obliterated all evi-
denee, as he thought, of the deed, he call
ed his young son and the two worked to-
gether until o'clock, when he took his
bucket containing dinner, and started for
the mine.
she discovered his shirt in tub of water.
The water had reddish tinge, but
she could not state that there was any
blood about the garment.
THE LATEST THEORY
advanced to account for the murder and at
the same time to adduce motive for the
killing, is that William Heilwagner came
home that Monday night under the influ
ence of liquor He visited his daughter
in-law and made improper proposals to
to her. She resented them and made her
flight from the house. She did not go to
wards the elder Heilwagner's residence as
would most naturally have been the case
had her murderer been tramp or other I'M
known person, as the house of her
father-in- law is but a short distance from
her own; but she made for the FrelPs res
idence more remote and in q direct line
from the point where evidences have been
discovered that her body first rested after
death
It is supposed that the accused after in
sulting her in the house followed her, and
learning that she was making for the
Frell's residence where an exposure would
follow overlook her and killed her.
TEMPERANCE.
The Rock Island county temperance alli-
ance meet at the town hall in Milan, this
afternoon and the Meeting was we'll atteu-