Another Woman (Tony Powers) tells story of woe for following love of Hemingray

ANOTHER WOMAN TELLS HOW WOE

FOLLOWED LOVE FOR HEMINGRAY

A PATHWAY STREWN

WITH BROKEN

HEARTS

Christine Towle, a Singer at

Local Theatres Reproaches

the Indiana Racing Man With

Ill-Treatment of Her

A NEW FIGURE IN THE CASE.

The upper portrait is that of Christine Towle, or Tony Powers, who tells of her experience with Hemingray; below are portraits of Robert Hemingray and the girl who ended her life on his account.

And now another young woman has come forward to tell how woe followed her love for Robert Hemingray, whose heartlessness caused the suicide of beautiful Carlo Campiglio. Evidently the young man has strew his pathway with broken hearts and blighted lives.

Miss Christine Towle is the latest woman in the case. A year ago she was living at the Lee Palmer with Hemingray and was there known as his wife. His love strayed to others and he left her in this city. She did not take her pistol and end her life as poor Carlo Campiglio did. In fact, she says he took her pistol with him and that it was her weapon which Miss Campiglio used to bring to a denouemnet [sic] denouncement a tragedy as sad and deep and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death."

Miss Towle, finding herself deserted and stranded, looked about for work. She found a short engagement with the "Princess Chic" company. Then she appeared at the Palm Garden, at the corner of Powell and Ellis streets, where she was known as Tony Powers. She also was seen at Fischer's and had a one-night engagement at the Orpheum. Now she is in Reno, Nev., and there has contributed her chapter in the strange story of Hemingray 's faithlessness.

Two weeks ago Christine Towle saw Hemingray in this city. She charged him with his perfidy and made his life temporarily miserable by the vehemence of her denun­ciations.

DENIES THE PISTOL.

Hemingray admits his relations with Miss Towle, but denies that it was the pistol of that lady which Miss Campiglio used upon herself.

And now from far-off Springfield, Ohio, comes the story told by Mrs. Hazel Greve, the daughter of Hal Reid, the actor and playwright. Mrs. Greve said that before she came to California Miss Campiglio told of despondency and expressed herself as con­templating suicide. The beautiful girl evidently was one who yearned for love and sympathy, and Robert Hemingray's cold­ heartedness was what led her to take up the pistol and end it all.

CHRISTINE'S HISTORY.

George G. Howard, steward at the Palm Garden, knows the history of the relations that existed between Miss Towle and Hemingray. She went to Reno. Nevada, two weeks ago, after closing her theatrical en­gagement here. Howard said last night:

"Christine Towle is a member of an excellent Eastern family. She came here with Hemingray last winter. He took rooms at the Leepalmer. She lived there as Mrs. Hemingray.

"Conroy Hemingray and his wife lived at the same hotel.

"It wasn't long before Robert Hemingray and the woman who had accompanied him to this state quarreled. She told me that he treated her most cruelly.

"She, however, was not so overcome by her sorrow as to think of suicide. She gath­ered up dollars enough to go to Portland, where she found a place in the chorus of the 'Princess Chic’ comic opera com­pany. With this troupe she returned to San Francisco last spring. She left the 'Princess Chic' company to sing at the Orpheum.

"Her engagement at the Orpheum was not successful, but she did make a good impression at the Oberon. The she adopted the name of Tony Powers, and has been singing here at various places ever since.

"She has sung duets with the woman known as Mrs. Conroy Hemingray, and whose stage name is Rose Lee."

Robert Hemingray denies that he ever ill-treated Miss Towle.

"She was merely an acquaintance of mine." he said last night. "Merely an acquaintance — that is all. 1 do not know of another thing to say about her. If she has said that Carlotta used her pistol she has made a mistake. The pistol was a weapon that I brought with me from Hot Springs."

Hemingray refuses to discuss his exclu­sion front the tracks controlled by the Cali­fornia Jockey Club. He owned only one of the horses now quartered at Ingleside and says that he will immediately sell the animal. The racers Hindred and Kitchener were in his stable, but it transpires that one of the horses belongs to the man who trained for him.

WHAT THE POLICE BELIEVE.

Yesterday morning the Police Department received a telegram from Mrs. P. F. Campiglio of Indianapolis, asking that the death of her daughter, who came out here with Robert T. Hemingray, be investigated. The mother expressed a belief that the girl did not kill herself. The police, however, are convinced that she fired the shot that ended her life.

The remains of the beautiful young woman were shipped to her mother yester­day afternoon.

The inquest will be held this morning at 10, and Coroner Leland will thoroughly sift all the facts and statements of witnesses to ascertain if any of the dead girl’s asso­ciates had a foreknowledge that she in­tended to commit suicide.

RENO (Nev.), December 2. — Tony Pow­ers, who left San Francisco two weeks ago to sing at the Orpheum Theatre in this city, said to-night:

"I know Robert Hemingray to my sorrow. The pistol with which Carlotta Campiglio shot herself was my property. I suppose Hemingray kept it as a little souvenir of his acquaintance with me. I'm sorry for the girl who killed herself."

This was all that Miss Powers would say.