[Newspaper]
Publication: The Examiner
San Francisco, CA, United States
vol. 77, no. 155, p. 5, col. 3
HEMINGRAY, SON
OF WEALTHY FAMILY
Ran Away From Home to Follow the
Races.
[Special by leased wire, the longest in the world.]
MUNCIE (Ind.), December 1. — The pathetic suicide of Charlotte Campiglio Hemingray, the girl wife of Robert Hemingray of Muncie, in San Francisco, has been a severe shock to the aged mother of the turfman, who is a wealthy woman of this city. Hemingray's father is dead. His mother knew nothing of his marriage until informed to-day of the suicide of his young wife by a telegram from San Francisco. She at first refused to believe the news. The career of Robert Hemingray since he left his home in Muncie one year ago, has been one of romance and adventure. Scion of a wealthy family, he grew up a society idol and a sport. After the death of his father his mother and uncle, Ralph Hemingray, a wealthy glass manufacturer of Muncie, undertook to reform the young man. He was put to work in the factory, but he ran away. He fell in with horsemen and won thousands. He bought a string of race horses and they added to his coffers. Last summer, when he returned to Muncie he showed his friends $8,000 which he had "cleaned up" on the races.