Robert "Robin" Hemingray - Carlotta Campiglio

FACTS COMING TO LIGHT

IN THE HEMINGRAY CASE

Sad Story of Carlotta Campiglio's Relations

With Hemingray - Latter

Ruled Off Track.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2. - One by one the statements made by the Hemingray brothers are being sifted by the police, and one by one they are being found to be more or less at variance with strict veracity. When the young girl, Carlotta Campiglio, or Steffens, as her name is now thought to have been, was first found dead in her room at 1340 Pine street, Robert Hemingray said she was his wife. Now he admits that their relations were meretricious.

Finding that his story is not to be believed, the authorities have begun to look a little more closely into the statements made by Conroy T. Hemingray, the younger brother, and they, too, do not carry conviction with them.

When the tragedy first occurred, Conroy Hemingray told a reporter that he had no idea who the woman "Rose" might be, referred to in the letter written by the suicide. Later he said that it was no one whom he knew, but probably was a Mrs. Rose Hess, who was also a roomer in the Knickerbocker.

Yesterday he admitted to the press that he was married to the woman Rose, and that he had documentary evidence to prove that the two were made man and wife last February. The newly made husband and wife were not given to citing authorities, dates, and places to prove that they were living in lawful wedlock. "Rose" and her husband, while at the Coroner's office, laughed at the dispatch from Cincinnati stating that she was a divorced woman, but went no farther toward proving their side of the case than to laugh. They were willing to drop the incident where the reporters were.

Robert Hemingray was ruled off the Ingleside track to-day, and told to remove his horses from the stables. The scion of the well-known Hemingray family of Kentucky will never again ride his horses in a California race.

The conduct of the man toward his dead mistress has aroused the indignation of the officials who have charge of the course at Ingleside, and they have determined to make an example of him as far as is within their power. The order was issued by President Williams yesterday, and the different officers of the track informed of the decision of the Executive Board.

From present indications, it seems that Hemingray and the woman had a quarrel because she was receiving attentions from other men. Determined to revenge herself and make the man sorry for his criticisms, the unthinking girl resolved to put an end to her life.

The man upon whom she sought to wreak vengeance admits that some five or six weeks ago he first met Carlotta Campiglio, having done so by design, after hearing how beautiful she was. He was not disappointed in the woman's appearance, for he also says that he asked her to come to California with him, and that she consented after very little persuasion. He denies that they ever had a quarrel, although he says he has reproved her for gossiping.

The girl was not despondent, and once said that she would not kill herself for any man. Hemingray is positive that her suicide was the result of mature deliberation, and not of a sudden impulse or whim. On last Saturday she told a friend that she would not need her track badge any more.

This was early in the day, and several hours before the shooting. The man who is now the central figure in the case says that their relations were not those of sentiment, and that the woman cared very little for him. She knew she was beautiful, and that if he did not care for her it would be an easy matter to find another companion. There are several men in this city who are deeply infatuated with her. One is a well-known pugilist, two are politicians, and the others occupy prominent positions in the business world. Remorse, the man is positive, was not the cause that prompted self-destruction. She was not that kind of a woman, he says.

The mother in Cincinnati, to whom the remains of the dead girl were shipped last night, will not believe that her beautiful and erring daughter ended her existence. She says that someone killed her child, and that they are now trying to hide their own guilt by heaping ignominy upon the dead.

Here, for the present, the matter rests. The inquest to-morrow may bring out something new, but the story of the people who have sowed the wind and are reaping the whirlwind seems a tale that is told.   Woman lured into forbidden paths by a man who has a sort of infatuation for her, and she for him, has ended her own life in shame and ignominy. Her body is speeding eastward to the mother whose heart she has broken.

Here in San Francisco is the man who was the cause of it all, disgraced in the eyes of the public, and scorned by his own associates. He has his regrets, but they are more for his reputation than for his character. He has his sorrows, but they are more for himself than for the dead.