Robert Hemingray traduced girl and now barred from racing horses

CHARLOTTE STEFFIN, WHO WAS

TRADUCED BY A RICH TURFMAN.

TRADUCED A GIRL,

TURF BARS HIM.

Robert Hemingray Can't Race

His Horses at Ingleside

Because He Disowned a

Beautiful Woman Suicide.

QUEER PUNISHMENT, THIS.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3. -- Robert Hemingray, a young turfman who has raced horses at the Ingleside track here has been barred by order of Thomas W. Williams, President of the New California racetrack.

Hemingray has not been guilty of crooked work or sharp practice, but of something worse in the eyes of his fellow turfmen. According to his own confession Hemingray induced a beautiful girl to come to California with him and and then cast her aside.

The girl was Charlotte Steffin. She lived in Cincinnati with her mother, Her father is said to be a well-known New York grocer. She was only eighteen years old. She was known on account of her extraordinary perfection of face and figure as "Carlo the Beautiful."

The beautiful young woman Hemingray cast aside like a soiled plaything. The girls heart was broken. She retired to her room in the Hotel Knickerbocker on Saturday evening last and wrote a note to young Hemingray. This she left on a table for the young man who had broken her heart. Then she reclined at full length on the bed.

Then she shot herself. She was found lying with her mother's photograph clasped to her heart. The note which she left for young Hemingray was one of the most pitiful epistles ever penned on paper. It was the wail of a broken hearted girl.

"Don't curse me when I am gone please but I am heart broken and cannot live without you, as I love you with all my soul. You'll bury me won't you Bob? Just a little dirt over the body of the girl who would not live without you deer. I am sorry I did such a wicked thing as gossip, but I am so young. Only remember Bob that you have trifled with my heart."

There was more in the letter, but this paragraph stood out in all its pitiful intensity. Loving the man who had cast her aside the beautiful girl begged him not to curse her and to cast "just a little dirt over the body of the girl who could not live without him."

Hemingray calmly denied that the girl was his wife, and said that she had come willingly with him. The indignation of turfmen when they heard of his coldness was widespread and though no ruling off had ever before been made on such a cause the action of President Williams was warmly commended. It is not likely that Hemingray will ever race on any other track.