Murder by Suggestion; Carlotta suicide

MURDER BY SUGGESTION.

HEMINGRAY DENIES IT.

[BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — A. M.]

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1. — Owing to the charges which have been preferred by J. E. Locke, proprietor of the Knickerbocker Hotel, to the effect that Robert Hemingray, the horseman, and his brother, facilitated the suicide of the former's wife by suggestion and by leaving the weapon with which she killed herself where she could find it. Cornoner Leland has ordered a thorough investigation.

The Hemingray brothers denounce Locke and his story, declaring the charge to be trumped up out of whole cloth.

"I cannot imagine what the object of this attack can be," said Robert Hemingray. "I have had a loaded revolver in my rooms ever since I was a boy. I had never heard my wife theaten suicide; I did not leave the revolver where she could get it, and had no idea or intimation that she was despondent. We had our little tiffs, but there was no feud.

"When Locke says I tiptoed to the room and then stealthily returned to state that I had heard a pistol shot, but was too nervous to enter, he is stating what he knows is untrue. I enlist now that a full and immediate investigation be made, and that this man Locke be made to explain why he has attacked me. I owe him nothing, and if he is correctly quoted in his statement to the police and the Coroner, he is not telling the truth by any means.

NOT HIS WIFE

[BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — A. M.]

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1. — Robert Hemingray admitted to the coroner this afternoon that the young woman who killed herself on Saturday night, and with whom he had been living for several months, was not his wife.

Her name, he said, is Miss Carlotta Campiglio, of Cincinnati. The dead woman is the daughter of a well-known Italian family.

"CARLO, THE BEAUTIFUL."

[BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — P. M.]

CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 1. — The Suicide of the young woman, who was known in San Francisco as Mrs. Robert T. Hemingray and in this city as Miss Carlotta Campiglio, has caused a sensation in Cincinnati and Covington, Ky. She was known in both cities as "Carlo, the Beautiful," and had many admirers. Her mother is prostrated with grief at her home in this city. When seen today she said her daughter had been married to Hemingray several months ago. The remains of the young woman will be brought here for burial.