[Newspaper]
Publication: The Cincinnati Post
Cincinnati, OH, United States
vol. 44, no. 128, p. 2, col. 5-7
THINKS SHE
WAS URGED
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2. — (Spl.) —
The death of Carlotta Campiglio, the beautiful Cincinnati girl, at the Knickerbocker Hotel, is to be rigidly investigated by the authorities, who have received a despatch from the girl's mother. She asked that the death be fully probed, and that the body be sent home.
The circumstances of Robert Hemingray, the turfman, and his brother, Cornelius, returning to their apartments just in time to hear the fatal shot, is being taken into consideration in the inquiry that will be made. The coroner's inquest will be most searching.
J. E. Locke, proprietor of the Knickerbocker, who was induced to go into Carlotta's boudoir to investigate after the shot was heard by Hemingray and brother, says that the body was still limp. He is also the medium of a rumor that nothing was placed in the way of Carlotta Campiglio committing suicide.
The woman Rose, said to be Cornelius Hemingray's wife, and mentioned in the Campiglio’s farewell letter, is said to have talked to some extent herself, if Locke’s information is correct. She is said to have related that while Carlotta was despondent, suicide was discussed, and that a pistol was left in the apartments so she could conveniently reach it.
Hemingray now declares that Carlotta Campiglio was not his wife and that he spoke of her as his wife only to protect her name. They had been going together 3 and a half months, he said. They met by appointment, he declares at Indianapolis.
DENIED IT
Hemingray, when said that the girl's suicide had been encouraged, denied strenuously that there had been any such action. He said he would have used every means to prevent it.
Since the tragedy the proprietor of the Knickerbocker Hotel has asked for the rooms occupied by the Hemingrays.