Robert "Robin" Hemingray - Carlotta Campiglio

Mother Worries About Carlotta's Jewels

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Cincinnati Enquirer

Cincinnati, OH, United States
vol. LIX, no. 338, p. 12, col. 3


ANXIOUS


About Carl's Jewels,


Mrs. Campiglio Writes To

San Francisco.


Dead Girl's Remains To Be

Taken East.


Her Father Prostrated Over the

News of the Tragedy.


Relatives Still Fear Foul Play and

Will Insist on a Rigid

Investigation.


The results of Chief of Police George W. Wittman's investigation in San Francisco, Cal., into the death of Carlotta Campiglio-Hemingray have not yet been detailed to Mrs. Campiglio, but she is still firm in the belief that all of the facts have not come out in regard to her daughter's sudden death.

Her father, R. R. Goodridge, grandfather of the girl, reached this city yesterday morning, and when told of the shooting and the attendant circumstances expressed himself as certain that more will be brought to light. He said yesterday that the fact that the revolver was not the property of the dead girl but presumably belonged to an actress who had been a companion of the turfman Robin Hemingray, was not clear to him. He said:

"I don't care to talk for publication, but, like my daughter, I cannot believe that my grandchild shot herself. It seems strange to me that that man should have tiptoed into the apartment and then withdrawn and notified the proprietor of the hotel that he feared something had happened in the room. I want all the details of the case gone into by the police. Carl had no suicidal tendencies, and although it is said she shot herself I want an investigation made."

Mrs. Campiglio will leave after the remains arrive here Sunday and pay a visit to her father in New York City, where Mr. Goodridge is a prosperous merchant. The remains of Carlo Hemingray will also be sent to New York and placed in a grave in Woodlawn Cemetery. When the casket reaches this city it will be opened at Mrs. Campiglio's home, at 636 West Fourth street, in order that the mother may see the features of her daughter before the body is shipped to New York. Those who were friends of the deceased will also be permitted to view the remains.

Prof. Del Campiglio will not accompany his wife to New York. He will remain in this city, where he is engaged as organist at St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, at Seventh and Smith streets. He also has music classes organized here. The shock of her daughter's death has aged Mrs. Campiglio noticeably.

A story current that Mrs. Campiglio would leave Cincinnati for good and make her home in New York was denied by her last night. Mrs. Campiglio speaking of her visit to New York, said that she wants to get away from her recent environments to give her mind a rest and relief from associations that recall the death of her daughter. She says that she will spend some time in the metropolis before returning. She will take her little five-year-old daughter, Prof. Del Campiglio's child, with her. She will retain her place as soprano at St. Paul's M. E. Church.

When Carlotta Campiglio died she had with her a number of jewels, diamonds and other valuable stones, and Mrs. Campiglio is anxious to have them. No word of Carl's jewels has come to her and late last night she directed a letter to Mr. Locke, of the Knickerbocker Hotel, where the tragedy occurred, asking him to send the dead girl's jewels to her in this city. Her mother fears that the diamonds are gone, as no hint of their having been found has been published.

"Carl always wore very costly gems," she said last night, "but nothing has been said about finding them. It may be that the authorities are holding them for me. I want all of her possessions, and as I liked Mr. Locke's attitude on the night of the tragedy I am writing to him to get then for me.


HAZEL REID GREVE


Very Indignant That She Was Drawn

Into the Affair. Mrs. Hazel Reid Greve said yesterday that it was against her will that she was drawn into any connection with the death of Carlotta Campiglio. Statements which had been printed as made by her were not made for publication and she could not understand why Carlotta's mother attacked her.

"The suggestion was made," Mrs. Greve said, "that Carl's friends and not mine should send the flowers to her funeral, yet it would be a weird affair without flowers. As far as Mrs. Campiglio's forbidding Carl from associating with me is concerned, I think it was six of one and a half dozen of the other, as my reputation was injured just as much as theirs could possibly have been with association with me. Carl did just about as she pleased and went where she wanted to — her mother exercised no control over her.

"I shall take steps to see that I am not drawn into this affair any further. I shall take steps to see that it is stopped. My grandparents, with whom I live, are prostrated over the affair. In regard to the statement I made about the episode at the Grand Hotel I want to say that it was published in the papers before I made it. I am willing to take an oath in any Court to the statement I made that Carl spoke of committing suicide at the time she was ordered to leave the Grand Hotel.

"Mrs. Campiglio made the statement that Carl was not out with me very much. The fact is that she was with me many times. Sometimes Mrs. Campiglio, Carl and I were all out together. I remember once especially at the Swim.

"Once again I wish to repeat that I am very, very sorry I was drawn into the affair, and it will cause me a good deal of trouble."


CARL'S FATHER


Prostrated By the News of His

Daughter's Suicide Special Dispatch to the Enquirer. New York. December 3.- "My poor child! My poor child!" moaned Christian Steffens, the father of Charlotte Hemingray, when seen here to-day. He was utterly prostrated by the suicide of the beautiful girl, hardly out of her short dresses, because of whose death Robert Hemingray, the rich young Kentucky horse owner, was barred from the turf in San Francisco yesterday. The girl had changed her name to Hemingray after leaving New York. Her father is a well-to-do grocer who has been in business here for years. He lives with his aged mother at 370 West Fifty-eighth street. The dead girl was the great pet of her grandmother and her tragic end was a great shock to the aged woman and may cause her death.

At all the resorts in this city frequented by horsemen the action of President Williams, of the California Jockey Club, in ruling Hemingray off the track for traducing the dead girl was discussed, and there was unanimous approval of the course taken.

The girl's mother was divorced from Christian Steffens here 10 years ago. She was a beautiful woman and sang in the choir of Dr. Lloyd's Congregational Church, Fifty-seventh Street. After securing her freedom from Mr. Steffens she became the wife of P. F. Campiglio, organist of the church.


Keywords:Hemingray
Researcher notes: 
Supplemental information: 
Researcher:Glenn Drummond / Bob Stahr
Date completed:February 11, 2004 by: Glenn Drummond;