Robert "Robin" Hemingray - Carlotta Campiglio

CARLO THE BEAUTIFUL

RECEIVED A WARNING

CARLOTTA STEFFEN.

PALMIST TOLD HER SHE WOULD

BE KILLED.

SHE LAUGHED AT WARNING

Friends Do Not Believe She Committed

Suicide - Her Lover is

Under Surveillance.

Many remarkable stories of the career of Carlotta Steffen, known as "Carlo, the Beautiful," are being told, and not he 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, Robert Hemingray, a wealthy horseman, says it was suicide.

Carlotta Steffen conducted a toilet parlor in the Stephenson 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."

The Warning.

"I dislike to tell you, but if you insist I believe that it is my duty to warn you. You are 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 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

Police Are Investigating.

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 by young Hemingray. The young horseman 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 Ingleside enclosure 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 associated 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.