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Neil Heidemann The Quincy Daily Whig Thursday, Dec 14, 1911 Page 14 DEATH COMES TO NEIL HEIDEMANN YOUTH WHO WAS ASSAULTED BY HIS FATHER DIED LAST NIGHT FATHER NOT RESPONSIBLE ONE DOCTOR CALLS LATE AILMENT PNEUMONIA; ANOTHER TYPHOID      Cornelius (Neil) Heidemann, son of Mr. And Mrs. John Heidemann, of 626 Chestnut street, died at his home last evening at 6:30 o'clock, death terminating from pneumonia, according to one physician, while another credits his death to typhoid fever. Whether or not the ailment that resulted in the demise of the young man was brought about by the recent assault committed on his person by his father, is not known, but the authorities say that the senior Heidemann will not be held to answer for the boy's death.      It will be recalled that two weeks ago last Sunday night, young Heidemann was assaulted with a knife by his father while the latter was under the influence of liquor and after the son had reprimanded him for coming home drunk. The wounded boy lost nearly a gallon of blood, the point of the knife with which he was stabbed having penetrated one of the lungs. It was at first thought that his injuries would result fatally, and a warrant was issued for the father, charging him with assault with intent to kill. The son refused to prosecute his father, saying that his parent acted in self defense, as he (the son) first assaulted him. The result was the father got off with paying a light fine for simple assault. Assistant States Attorney Roy said last night that the son had exonerated his father of all blame and he would not be held responsible for the death.      In the course of 10 days Neil Heidemann had sufficiently recovered from his wounds to b up and around home, and a week later was out on the streets. It was about ten days ago that he was stricken, and Dr. Blickhan, who attended him when he was stabbed, was again called to his bedside. The physician said he was suffereing from an attack of pneumonia and that his case was most critical. In the meantime the father consulted another physician in order that his son might receive additional aid. The second physician told the parents that the boy did not have pneumonia, but that he was suffering from a severe attack of typhoid fever. It was only a day or two ago that the second physician was consulted, and after that time the condition of young Heidemann grew constantly worse, death coming as a relief to his suffering early last evening. When John Heidemann first learned that his son was dead he almost suffered a breakdown.      Neil Heidemann, a painter by trade was born in Quincy, July 1, 1888, and at the time of his death was aged 23 years. Two children, a brother and sister, preceded him in death and he was the only living child. His parents are the only immediate relatives surviving him. The Quincy Daily Journal Monday, Nov 27, 1911 Page 7 SON STABBED BY FATHER CORNELIUS HEIDEMANN PROBABLY FATALLY INJURED IN A CUTTING SCRAPE EARLY This Morning – Right Lung Pierced by Knife in the Hands of an Angry Father. A State's Warrant is Issued - The Boy Says He Got What He Deserved.      John Heidemann, a candy maker, employed by Riedinger & Oertle, stabbed and probably fatally wounded hhis (sic) 20-year-old son, Cornelius Heidemann, a painter by trade, this morning about 1 o'clock, during a family row at their home, in the reaer (sic) of 620 Chestnut street. Young Heidemann was stabbed once on the right shoulder, the knife blade ranging downward and piercing the right lung, and there is also a gash about two inches long on the right hand. He received the latter wound while trying to force the knife from the hand of his angry father.      Immediately after the cutting, about 1:15 o'clock, Dr. A. J. Blickhan was called and dressed the boy's wounds. When the doctor arrived the boy had lost about a gallon of blood, and was in a serious condition. The bed on which he was lying was covered with blood, and the wound in his right shoulder and lung bled profusely until stopped by the physician. Young Heidemann was too weak to be removed to the hospital, and is at present undergoing treatment at his home. Dr. Blickhan stated this morning that the boy had lost an immense quantity of blood; that the cut was a serious one, and his condition is considered serious. BOY BLAMES HIMSELF.      In statements made this afternoon, young Heidemann does not attach any blame to his father for cutting him almost into little pieces. “I got just what was coming to me,” declared the boy. “I should have had more sense than to jump the old man when he was drinking.” It seems that Heidemann, who is considered a dangerous man when in his cups, was drinking more or less heavily last night, and when his son came home about midnight the lad preceded to pick a quarrel with his father. Young Heidemann admitted today that the remarks he addressed to his father were not expressions of filial love, and said that he did not blame the elder Heidemann for cutting him up.      One word in the quarrel led to another, and finally the father, his anger inflamed by drink, came after his son with a knife, inflicting wounds as stated above.      A warrant charging Heidemann with assault with intent to kill was sworn out by States Attorney Gilmer this morning, but up to 2 o'clock had not been served. Should young Heidemann die the charge will probably be changed to murder. The Quincy Daily Whig Tuesday, Dec 12 1911 Page 11 VICTIM OF ASSAULT NOW HAD PNEUMONIA CORNELIUS hEIDEMANN SAID TO BE IN A VERY CRITICAL CONDITION.      At his home at the rear of 620 Chestnut street, Cornelius Heidemann is bedfast with an attack of pneumonia that attending physicians pronounce most critical. It will be recalled that young Heidemann was just recovering from wounds inflicted by his father about two weeks ago when the senior Heidemann assaulted his son with a knife and stabbed him through the shoulder. While the present ailment is not thought to be an outcome of the knife wounds his chances for recovery would probably be much brighter had he escaped the injury that came so near resulting fatally. Should his present illness terminate in death it is hardly probable that his father can be held responsible for his demise, the son having exonerated his father that he, the victim was the aggressor. The Quincy Daily Whig Wednesday, Nov 29, 1911 Page 6 HEIDEMANN GETS A CONTINUANCE MAN CHARGED WITH STABBING SON ARRAIGNED YESTERDAY MORNING.      John Heideman, arrested for stabbing his son, Neil Heideman on a warrant charging assault with intent to kill, was arraigned in police court yesterday morning where a continuance was granted. The case was allowed to go over until next Wednesday and he was released on bond.      The continuance was granted to await the outcome of the injuries received by the son. Dr. Blickhan, his physician, reported his condition unchanged last night and that he was still not out of danger. There were only two other cases in police court yesterday morning. The defendants were up on intoxication charges and were fined $2 and costs. The Quincy Daily Journal Friday, Dec. 08, 1911 Page 7 HEIDEMANN IS FINED MAN WHO ASSAULTED HIS SON GETS OFF WITH A LIGHT FINE, AS THE Injured Man Did Not Want to Prosecute – Police Court Cases.      The continued state case of John Heidemann, who was charged with an assault with intent to kill his son, Cornelius Heidemann, some days ago, came up before Police Magistrate Reardon this morning on this charge of assault and battery, the state's attorney having changed the charge which meant a lower fine. Heidemann pleaded guilty and was fined $15 and costs. The total amounting to $22.50. It seems that in the evidence submitted by the injured man at the time of the trouble between his father and himself, he was about to throw a pitcher at his father, but his father was too quick and drew his knife and attacked him. It seems that the son did not wish to prosecute, but as a state law had been violated, it was the duty of the state's attorney to bring action. The Quincy Daily Journal Thursday, Dec 14 1911 Page 7 DEATH WAS CAUSED BY THE WOUNDS CORNELIUS HEIDEMANN, WHO WAS STABBED IN THE RIGHT LUNG BY FATHER ON Nov. 27th, Died at His Home Yesterday Evening, of Septic Fever and Pneumonia, Induced by the Knife Wounds – Coroner's Inquest to Be Held This Afternoon.      Cornelius Heidemann, died at his home in the rear of 626 Chestnut street yesterday afternoon at 6:30 o'clock, his death being the final chapter of a cutting scrape indulged in by young Heidemann and his father, John Heidemann, at 1 o'clock in the morning of Nov. 27, when the elder Heidemann attacked his son with a knife and inflicted two wounds. One was considered serious from the start, the knife blade entering the upper lobe of the right lung, penetrating the organ and causing an enormous flow of blood. The knife entered the body at a point directly above the collar bone. The other wounds was a trifle, a gash across the back of the right hand. The next day the elder Heidemann was arrested and on trial was fined $20 and costs on a charge of attempt to kill, the young man refusing to prosecute his father.      Dr. A. J. Blickhan, who was called in to attend the wounded man immediately after the cutting, told a Journal reporter this morning that the direct cause of the death of young Heidemann was septic fever and pneumonia. The fever was caused by the effects of blood lodging in the lung, which it was impossible to get out. This blood has been in the right lung of the boy ever since he was cut, and while the wound was open a slight squeezing would bring a flood of blood rushing to the surface. Nearly a week ago Dr. Blickhan said he regarded young Heidemann's condition as critical, and did not expect him to live. About eight days after the cutting young Heidemann was able to be out on the streets, although still weak from loss of blood. It was about a week ago that the fever set in and he contracted pneumonia, being too weak to stand the exposure.      About three days ago Dr. Mille_ (n or r) was called in by the family and stated that the boy was suffering with typhoid fever, and not pneumonia, which it is said he gave as the cause of death. Dr. Blickhan was called twice last night, the first time being several hours before the boy's death, while on the last call the boy was dead when he arrived. FATHER WAS DRUNK      According to statements made to a caller at the Heidemann home shortly after the boy was stabbed, the youth attached no blame whatever to his father for stabbing him, declaring that “I got just what was coming to me; I should have known better than to jump the old man when he was drinking.” When the elder Heidemann was brought to trial, having been arrested the next day on a warrant charging assault with intent to kill, young Heidemann refused to prosecute his father, and Heidemann was released after paying a small fine for assault. It seems that young Heidemann came home about midnight on the night of the cutting and finding his father drinking heavily, and being more or less intoxicated himself, began to reproach the elder Heidemann. One word led to another, and finally the father grabbed a knife and stabbed the son. WILL HOLD INQUEST      State's Attorney Gilmer stated today at noon that he had not yet decided whether a warrant would be sworn out for the arrest of the elder Heidemann. An inquest will be held some time this afternoon, and an investigation made of the causes of the death of young Heidemann. Should the coroner's jury decide that the boy came to his death from wounds inflicted by his father, a warrant will probably be sworn out. The Quincy Daily Journal Friday, Dec 15, 1911 Page 7 INQUEST OF HEIDEMANN WAS HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON – CORONER'S JURY BROUGHT      In Verdict That Death Was Caused by Pneumonia – Father Refuses to Testify at the Inquest. Will Probably Not Be Held for Trial – Mother Tells Story of the Fight. In all probability John Heidemann will not stand trial for the killing of his son, Cornelius Heidemann, who died Wednesday evening of pneumonia and septic fever induced by knife wounds inflicted by his father. The coroner's jury at the inquest held yesterday afternoon, attached no blame for the death on the father, and in statements made shortly after the cutting young Heidemann claimed that his father was in no way to blame for the fight.      According to the coroner's jury, death was caused by pneumonia and septic fever, which, it is thought, were induced by the wounds the lad received in the fight with his father, on November 27. Evidence introduced, however, tended to show that the boy was as much or more to blame than his father, and in a statement made to Detective Robert Bumster before his death he exonerated his father of all blame, saying, as had been previously printed in The Journal, that he should not have jumped his father while drunk. Only four witnesses were examined by the jury yesterday afternoon. The law gives the option of testifying at an inquest, and John Heidemann, the father who wielded the knife which inflicted the wounds on his son, refused to give any evidence before the jury. The witnesses examined were the boy's mother, Detective Bumster and Drs. Blickhan and Millen. MOTHER TELLS HOW SON WAS INJURED.      Sobbing bitterly, with her mind filled with anguished thoughts of her son lying stiff and cold in the next room, Mrs. Catherine Heidemann, mother of the dead boy, told the coroner's jury how the son and father had engaged in the fight which finally resulted in the boy receiving knife wounds from which he died. She said that Neil came home partially drunk shortly after midnight and after she had let him in he went into the kitchen and got something to eat. Then he came into the room where his father was sleeping, and began to shake the stove, which awakened the father, who demanded to know what he was doing, swearing at the boy. Mrs. Heidemann said that the son replied with an oath that it was none of his father's business, and the father started to get out of bed, remarking that he would see whether it was any of his business or not.      As the father arose from the bed Neil hurled a heavy cup at him, and then they clinched. In a few minutes of fighting the son had thrown his father to the floor and began to kick and strike him, and she pushed the boy out of the room and locked the door. Neil began crying that he was bleeding and begged that he be let in, but Mrs. Heidemann said she told him to go away from the house. As she turned from the door, however, she saw her husband pick u a knife off the floor and look at its blood-bespattered blade. Mrs. Heidemann instantly realized that something was wrong and asked Larry Hand, a boarder who had been aroused by the fight, to let Neil in. Hand opened the door and carried the boy in and put him on the bed, after which Dr. Blickhan was called to dress the wounds. Mrs. Heidemann said that the boy improved within a few days, but suffered a relapse about Thanksgiving, which later developed into septic fever and pneumonia, causing his death. Dr. A. J. Blickhan testified that he had attended the boy when he was injured, and had been giving him medical attention since that time. He said that in his opinion death had been caused by pneumonia. Dr. Millen testified that he was called to the Heidemann home last Monday night, and found the boy suffering from what appeared to be typhoid fever. He said, however, that the symptoms were such as might be found in cases of septic fever and pneumonia.      Robert Bumster, a detective, testified that at the request of State's Attorney Gilmer he had visited the Heidemann home the day after the cutting, and young Heidemann had exonerated his father of all blame. The boy's statement, made at that time, in which he said that he got what was coming to him, has been printed in The Journal.      The jury was composed as follows: Dr. A. W. Meyer, foreman; Edward Higgins, Louis Ter_sner, J. J. Linton, Edward Ryan and Daniel Purcell. [transcribed by Debbie Gibson]