Carl W. Neuman died 1901

NEUMAN, FOELL, CLEARY, REDEN, HESSLING, DORSEY

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 12/26/2016 at 13:28:18

Dubuque Daily Telegraph – April 5, 1901
DEED OF NEUMANN
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SHOEMAKER WHO COMMITTED
SUICIDE, WAS A VICTIM OF THE
DRINK HABIT
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HAD BEEN DRINK EXCESSIVELY
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Placed Revolver to His Mouth,
Then Fired – Victim’s Nose Was
Fractured by the Fall.
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Carl W. Neumann, the shoemaker who committed suicide in his shop, 815 Clay Street, sometime Wednesday night, was a heavy drinker. For several days before his tragical end he had been drinking heavily and, it is said, had not been home for two days. The last time anyone saw him alive was Wednesday night about 7 o’clock when he was seen to enter his shop. Thursday many people called at the shop but could not gain entrance because the door was barred. In the rear of Neumann’s shop Hessling & Foell have a paint shop and to get to their place of business one must pass through the shoemakers shop. They did not have occasion to visit their shop Thursday until 3:30 o’clock. When they arrived there about that hour and found the door locked they peered in through the window and saw Neumann’s body lying on the floor. They effected an entrance and were horrified to find Neumann dead. They notified the police and later Coroner Bennett and a physician were called. The physician thought by the condition of things that Neumann had been dead quite a number of hours and it is believed he committed suicide Wednesday night shortly after he was seen enter the shop.

Neumann’s nose was broken and one of his eyes badly bruised, facts that show he shot himself while in a standing position. The revolver, which lay at his side, was a 32 caliber and had one chamber empty. Neumann placed it to his moth and fired. The bullet lodged in the base of the brain.

A wife and six children survive Neumann who was 50 years of age and resided in West Eleventh Street. He had been a resident of Dubuque about seven years, coming here from Ionia, Mich. He was a brother of Otto C. Neumann, a cigar maker.

The coroner’s jury consisting of Steve Dorsey, Art Cleary, and Mr. Reden met this afternoon and returned a verdict in the accordance of the above facts.