Robert "Robin" Hemingray - Carlotta Campiglio

DENIES SHE WAS

HIS WIFE

Latest Concerning the San

Francisco Suicide.

Robert Hemingray Accused of Conniving

At the Death of the Woman.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1, - Owing to the charges with 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, Dr. Leland, the Coroner, has ordered a thorough investigation of the case. An inquest will be held at once.

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 not had a loaded revolver in my rooms ever since I was a boy. I had never heard my wife threaten suicide, and I did not leave the revolver where she could get it, and had the 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 heard a pistol shot, but was too nervous to enter, he is stating what he knows in untrue. I insist 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."

Robert Hemingray told 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 says, is Miss Carlotta Campiglio of Cincinnati. The dead woman is the daughter of a well-known Italian family.

A telegraphic dispatch has also reached this city stating that the woman who passes as the wife of C. T. Hemingray is not his wife at all, but in reality is Mrs. Rose Surprise, the wife of Cornelius Surprise, a well-known and influential citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Surprises were not happy as man and wife, and some time ago the wife disappeared suddenly. The husband made no effort to locate her, and until the suicide did not know her whereabouts.

"CARLO, THE BEAUTIFUL."

CINCINNATI, 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.

The mother is prostrated with grief at her home in this city. When seen to-day she said her daughter had been married to Hemingray several months ago. The remains of the young woman will be brought here for burial.

The real name of the suicide was Carlotta Steffin and her father is said to be a wealthy grocer of New York. The mother of Carlotta secured a divorce from Steffin several months ago, and subsequently married P. F. Campiglio, organist at St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Covington.