HEINMILLER, William Mrs. – Died 1904

HEINMILLER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 7/6/2019 at 12:16:38

Source: Decorah Republican May 26, 1904 Page 4

SUICIDE IN CHICKASAW COUNTY
Followed by Another Attempt at Suicide that Failed.
New Hampton Gazette: — Mrs. Wm. Heinmiller of Alta Vista was found dead in the small stream known as Elk Creek about forty rods west of Main street Sunday morning. The body lay in about 18 inches of water. She had left her bed in the night and had gone to the stream and either fell in accidentally or deliberately entered the stream to end her own life. The latter view is that most common, as the body was found face down with the hands clasped back of the neck.
Mrs. Heinmiller was a widow and had been keeping house with her children and also kept house for her two brothers-in-law. She had been ill with sick headache for a copule{sic} of days, but it was not thought she was deranged.
As a sequel to the drowning of Mrs. Heinmiller was the attempt of her brother-in-law, George Heinmiller, to take his own life with a knife in the rear of Klatt’s saloon at Alta Vista yesterday. He had been noticed to be acting strangely and when he went into the back of the saloon alone he was followed. He had a knife in his hand and was evidently about to plunge it into his body, when editor Babcock of the Record disarmed him.