Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-30
SHOOTS COUSIN
FOR TRYINC TO
BREAK UP HOME
Louis HeiIwagOn Instantly Killed
by Bullets Fired by Henry
Denhardt-
TROUBLE BREWING SOME TIME
Murderer Confesses and Gives Self
Up to Police Following AZ
fair This Morning.

Believing that Louis Heilwagon,
better known as Louis K1einau,
aged about 81 years old, was try
ing to induce his cousins wife to
leave her home for him, Henry
Denhardt, husband of the woman,
shot a. Heilwagon three times, killing
him instantly. in the formers home,
GZ8 Seventeenth avenue, East Mo
line, at o'clock this morning. One
bullet entered the groin, another
the chin and the third the right
side. Death was instant. Inquest
over the body was scheduled for .
O'Clock this afternoon in the East
Moline undertaking parlors.
Both men are we'll known in East
Moline. Trouble between the three
has been brewing for several
weeks. Heilwagon had been rooming
at the Denhardt home, but was re-
peatedly forced to leave. Yester-
day afternoon Denhardt caused
Heilwagon's arrest on a charge of
assault and battery, which was al
legged to have taken place Sunday
afternoon, in which Denhardt's wife
W as the main figure. The case was
TO be heard yesterday afternoon,
but because the complainant
thought that he had better have
witnesses to substantiate his evil
dcnce, he asked that the case be
continued for 10 days. The shoot
ing is the outgrowth of Sundays
assault and the elimination of 9TH
er quarrels and threats.
This morning at s o'clock when
Denhardt entered his home he
found Heilwagon and Mrs. Denhardt
together. A quarrel eEsued and
then the three walked into one OF
the bedrooms The verbal quarrel
developed into fistic encounter be-
tween the two men. Denhardt
pulled a .38 caIiber gun from his
pocket and in direct aim at Heilwag-
on shot three times. Derhardt did
rot attempt to shoot his wife or
harm her. He was seeking revenge
against the man who was trying to
break up his home.
Gives Up Self.
Immediately after ne shooting
Denhardt called Ck;er Thomas l.
Schafer and asked that the am5u-
lance and officers come to the home
because he had shot a man. When
the officers arrived Denhardt was
standing on the walk in front of
his home. He gave himself up and
turned over his revolver without
being questioned.
That the shooting was premedi- /
L.
,act that Denhardt had taken the |
revolver from a friend, from whom |
ne had borrowed the weapon be /
fore. Another fact to be used as |
evidence that the shooting was
planned is that Denhardt asked that
the hearing in which Heilwagon is
charged with assault and battery. |
De postponed yesterday afternoon
Denhardt has another case pend
ing in the county court. DR.. J. H. !
had started suit
against Denhardt to collect a bill
for $500, which, the physician al
leges, is due him as fees for an op-
Grafton performed on Mrs. Den
hGrdt some time ago.
Heilwagon was divorced from his
first wife, who, it is said. is remar-
r!ed. Heilwagon came to East Moline
a short while ago, but was born
and reared in Hampton township.
He had been rooming at his cous-
ms home and it is claimed had paid
attention to Mrs. Den
hardt. He has served time in a
state penitentiary. He was releas- |
ed from prison one year ago.
Denhardt is a plasterer by trade |
and is well known in East Moline. !
Has Police Record.
Louis Heilwagon is the grandson |
IF the HeiIwagon who was hanged |
IN Rock Island county for the muir |
Ter of his wife years ago. 1t has |
been claimed that the grandfather |
was innocent and that his son, the |
'ather of the man who was muir
Tered today, was the slayer. \ /
brother of Louis Heilwagon COM
nitted suicide on the same farm a
-ear ago.
Heilwagon lived with an aunt at
hampton Bluff and on account OF
amily history took the name of his
Lurt. He was arrested several
ears ago and was the man who
escaped from the Rock Island coun-
Y jail with a prisoner by the name
If Clyde Stratton. who was being
leld for the murder of Mr.. Crowder
# Silvis. He was the prisoner who
,eat up and nearly killed the turn
icy, Hugo Alvine, who was later
ound murdered in Silvis by Dan
yhastine.
Denhardt only yesterday was or
Iered to pay $3.50 in delinquent
Ioctor bills by County Judge Nels
\. Larson in the case of Dr. ]. H.
who brought suit
.gainst Denhardt for that amount