Robert "Robin" Hemingray - Carlotta Campiglio

Story of Carlotta Steffen's Suicide

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Muncie Daily Herald

Muncie, IN, United States
no. 229, p. 1


THE HEMINGRAY CASE


Sensational Statements Issuing From

'Frisco Relative to Tragedy.


MORE TROUBLE COMING


Advices from San Francisco relative to the death of a young woman supposed to have been the wife of Robert Hemingray of this city, are of a startling nature. Mrs. Campiglio, mother of the woman, is seriously ill over the shock, and when she learns that her daughter was never married to young Hemingray, her condition is expected to be more sad. The young man in an interview admits that he was never married to the woman who posed as his wife. The girl's mother has demanded an investigation and in San Francisco police are conducting it.

They claim the Hemingray boys, Robert and Con, had quarreled with the woman thought to be the former's wife and spoke of her in a slighting way. They are said to have left a loaded revolver on her dresser in the hotel and to have tip toed in after she had killed herself.

Robert claims that he went to Indianapolis to meet the girl and that she had been with him for five weeks. He maintains however, that he did not treat her badly and never suspected suicide, although other patrons of the hotel claim that there was trouble between the young man and his supposed wife.

Further dispatches from the court claim that Robert Hemingray's brother has a wife, but no authoritative information is at hand. On the other hand the report is sent from 'Frisco to the effect that a Cincinnati merchant's wife is the supposed companion of the younger Hemingray. The woman claims that she is the lawful wife of young Hemingray and that she can prove that they were legally married.

The mother of the girl posing as Robert Hemingray's wife has directed that the remains be sent to Cincinnati.


Keywords:Hemingray
Researcher notes: 
Supplemental information: 
Researcher:Roger Lucas / Bob Stahr
Date completed:June 27, 2004 by: Glenn Drummond;