Carlotta warned of her impending death by palmist

CARLOTTA WARNED OF

DEATH BY A PALMIST

Beautiful Girl Told That She

Would Lose Her Life, by

Clairvoyant Before

Leaving Indianapolis, Ind.

(From the Indianapolis News.)

Many remarkable stories of the career of Carlotta Steffen, known as "Carlo, the Beautiful," are being told, and not the least is that of her visit to an Indianapo­lis palmist shortly before her fatal trip into the west, Carlotta Steffen was found dead in the Knickerbocker Hotel, San Francisco, last Saturday night. A bullet wound told the story. But was it suicide or murder? Her lover, Robin Hemingray, a wealthy horseman, says it was suicide.

Carlotta Steffen conducted a toilet par­lor in the Stevenson Building, and was a capable masseuse. She came here from Cincinnati. Shortly after her arrival, about two months ago, she, in a spirit of levity, visited a palmist. The palmist took the hand of the beautiful masseuse and dropped it.

"I do not want to tell you what I read in your hand," the palmist said, sadly. "You do not want to hear it, young woman."

"Oh, yes, I do," insisted the girl. "Please tell me what it says."

In Great Danger.

"I dislike to tell you, but if you insist I believe that if is my duty to warn you. You arc standing in the shadow of a great danger," the palmist said slowly. "You are to go west-very far west. I think to California. There you will meet with a terrible accident, and, I fear, will lose your life. I can not tell how or just where, but it will be before the first of the year. If I were you I would make up my mind not to journey into the west."

"Carlo, the Beautiful," laughed. Her deep blue eyes twinkled with merriment as she told the palmist that she had no thought of going west.

"But you will be given an opportunity," was the palmist's final words, as the beautiful masseuse tripped into the street.

Carlotta Steffen told Indianapolis friends of the palmist's warning and laughed. The word "accident" in the palmist's warning has led some of the dead girl's friends to believe that she met death while toying with the revolver that Robin Hemingray had left on the dresser.

If Carlotta gave thought to the palmist’s warning when Robin Hemingray, the wealthy horseman, came here to carry her into the west, she did not mention it to her friends. They went from here to Chicago, where he bought her a magnifi­cent wardrobe. Then they went to San Francisco. And the palmist’s warning came true.

The Police Theory.

Chief of Police Wittman, of San Francisco, is working on the theory offered by the dead girl's mother. Mrs. Lottie Campiglio, of Cincinnati. She insists that the girl was murdered. Hemingray is un­der surveillance and will be kept so until the detectives have thoroughly investigated the strange death of "Carlo, the Beautiful."

Young Hemingray has been ruled from the track at Ingleside, and the gatemen have received orders never to allow him to enter lngleside inclosure again Thomas H. Williams, president of the Ingleside Racing association, has said that a man that would traduce the name of a dead girl was not fit to associate with respectable men.

Hemingray has admitted that he came to Indianapolis to get the girl as a mistress, and that his money was the charm. He had heard of her beauty of face and form, and journeyed here to take her to her death.

Contemplated Suicide.

An investigation that has been conducted in Cincinnati has developed the rather surprising information that Carlotta contemplated suicide before she left this city. This Information comes from Mrs. Hazel Greve, nee Reid, daughter of Hal Reid, the playwright and actor. These wo young women were very warm friends for a long time.

"I saw Carl — we never called her Carlo, as the papers have had it — the day she was ordered to leave the Grand Hotel," said Mrs. Greve.

"It was the day of the Roosevelt parade. When she received the notice to leave the hotel, she burst out crying, and to me said: 'Hazel, I shall kill myself some day; the world seems to be against me.'

"That was the last time I ever saw her. When she left here it was her intention to open a manicure parlor in Indianapolis. She told me of her arrangements before she left the city.

"Carl had some ability as an artist, and her pen and ink work was declared clever by a number of competent judges. I intend to call on her mother today and tender my condolence. I shall send some nice flowers and some of my friends shall do likewise.

"It would be too bad to have the obsequies appear weird and devoid of flowers simply because Carl died as she did. I am sorry that she did not notify her friends here, as she could have obtained all the assistance that she needed. It was so foolish of her to end her life as she did."