Robert "Robin" Hemingray - Carlotta Campiglio

MOTHER SAYS IT IS MURDER

Urges Police to Investigate

the Death of

Carlotta Campiglio.

DETECTIVES CLAIM IT IS   CLEARLY A SUICIDE.

POSITIVE PROOF THAT THE DEAD

GIRL WROTE THE NOTES

LEFT IN THE ROOM.

Josiah Locke Retracts His Talk of

Foul Play, and Now Says

the Woman Killed

Herself.

It is the belief of Mrs. P. F. Campiglio of Cincinnati that her daughter, Carlotta Campiglio, reputed wife of Robert Hemingray, was murdered in her rooms at the Knickerbocker apartments last Saturday night. She has telegraphed the local police, asking them to make a most thorough investigation of the case, to the end that the person she believes guilty of her daughter's death shall not go free. She has asked also that the body of the dead girl be embalmed and shipped to her old home in Cincinnati.

There is no probability that the police will pay any further attention to the case, for they have already made what they consider a thorough investigation, and they declare that the death of Carlotta Campiglio was a plain case of suicide. And thus far the evidence is all in support of the police theory.

Nothing has developed in contradiction of the statements made by Robert and Conway Hemingray, and yesterday Josiah E. Locke, husband of the proprietress of the Knickerbocker Apartments, retracted all he had said regarding the suspicious character of the case. He told Detective Thomas Ryan, in the presence of the Hemingrays, that he was fully satisfied that they had no guilty knowledge of the young woman's death. Locke is the man who first started the police on their extended inquiry into the affair. On the night the Campiglio woman was shot, Detective Crockett was sent to the house and he pronounced it a suicide. So did Locke. But on the following day Locke went to police headquarters and stated that there were many suspicious features to the case. He thought it not all unlikely that the girl had not killed herself, and upon the strength of what he said the police went into the case again. They are now where they were the day after the girl's death, only they have stronger proof of the correctness of the position they have held all along.

SHE WROTE THE NOTES.

One of the most certain bits of evidence came into the possession of the police last night when they showed beyond a doubt that Carlotta Campiglio wrote the suicidal notes that were found in her room shortly after the shooting occurred. The handwriting of the notes was compared with handwriting known to be that of the woman now dead and it appeared the same.

Aside from this the police have learned that the most serious cause of difference between Hemingray and Miss Campiglio was of a more or less secret nature, and that the quarrels and disputes of the two were ascribable to the fits of temper springing from this primary cause. In the note she left to Hemingray Miss Campiglio complained that he did not love her. Regarding which the police do not claim that Hemingray loved the woman, but they do claim that if he did not show her the proper amount and warmth of affection it was due to a cause not rightly understood by Miss Campiglio.

This morning the Coroner will hold his inquest and the testimony of all the witnesses who know anything about the case will be taken. Coroner Leland intends to make a searching inquiry into the matter, as it is his desire that there shall be no room for complaint after the investigation shall have been concluded.

THREATENED SUICIDE.

Told a Friend That the World Was

Against Her.

SPRINGFIELD (O.), December 2. - An investigation that has been conducted in Cincinnati has developed the rather surprising information that Carlotta Campiglio, whose tragic death in San Francisco caused a sensation, contemplated suicide before she left Cincinnati. This information comes from Mrs. Hazel Greve (nee Reid), the pretty daughter of Hal Reid, the playwright and actor. These two young women were very warm friends for a long time.

"I last 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 to-day. "It was the day of the Roosevelt parade. When she received the notice to leave the hotel she burst out crying, and turning to me said: 'Why, 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 home 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."