Robert "Robin" Hemingray - Carlotta Campiglio

INDIANAPOLIS GIRL

A SUICIDE IN 'FRISCO

WIFE OF ROBIN HEMINGRAY

FORMERLY OF MUNCIE.

RAN A MANICURE PARLOR

Miss Steffen's Offices in the Stevenson

Building - Husband from a

Rich Gas Belt Family.

Carlotta Steffen, the young woman who has committed suicide in the Knickerbocker Hotel, San Francisco, was a few weeks ago a resident of Indianapolis. She conducted a manicure parlor in the Stevenson Building. She was associated in business with a Mrs. Graham, of New York.

Two months ago Miss Steffen and Mrs. Graham came here and opened a manicure parlor in the sixth floor of the Stevenson Building. They advertised as Steffen & Graham, masseurs and manicurists. After occupying the suite about a month, they dissolved partnership, and Mrs. Graham returned to New York.

She Told Her Secret.

To acquaintances acquired during her stay in the Stevenson Building, Miss Steffen confided her love secret. She said that she was engaged to marry Robin Hemingray, a wealthy horseman, and was to go to San Francisco for an immediate marriage. She left this city shortly after the dissolution of partnership, and friends here say that she went directly to San Francisco.

She frequently spoke of her mother in Cincinnati and said that her mother's present name was Campiglio, her mother having married after the death of the girl's father. It was thought that Miss Steffen was married to Hemingray immediately after her arrival in San Francisco.

Professionally, Miss Steffen was known here and elsewhere as "Carlo, the Beautiful." She was called a pleasing masseur, and was beginning to have numerous customers among the well-to-do Indianapolis people when her departure was announced.

Described as a Beauty.

"Carlo, the Beautiful," was a woman of magnificent form, and her dark blue eyes fascinated all who came in contact with her. She had a bewitching manner, and as a conversationalist was called interesting, her complexion was of an olive hue, and her jet black hair added to her beauty. She met but few men here and delighted in telling of her love for the young horseman.

GRIEF OF THE GIRL'S MOTHER.

Mrs. Campiglio Refuses to be Comforted --

Asks for Investigation.

[Special to The Indianapolis News.]

CINCINNATI, December 2 - Mrs. Lottie Campiglio mother of Carlotta Hemingray, who is said to have committed suicide at the Knickerbocker Hotel, San Francisco, has asked the police of the Golden Gate city of investigate.

Since the news of her daughter's death was first brought to her, Mrs. Campiglio has refused to see her friends, and with the photograph of the beautiful dead girl on her lap she sits in tears, calling in vain: "My baby, my little girl. I can't believe you fired the shot. I won't believer it."

Mrs. Campiglio is convinced that her daughter was the wife of Robin Hemingray, of Muncie. She says she received a letter saying that they had been married in Chicago, and since then she had written to her, both to the Palace Hotel, in San Francisco, and the Knickerbocker Hotel, of that city, in the name of Mrs. Carlotta Hemingray, and all letters had reached her.

The death of her daughter, it is feared by intimate friends, may have serious results in the mother's case. She has refused to take a bite of food or to sleep since Sunday morning. If her orders are obeyed the body will be sent to this city.

A dispatch from San Francisco says the young woman was driven to suicide by harsh treatment in that city. She was well known here and at Covington. It is said that Hemingray made the statement at San Francisco that he was not her husband.

WELL KNOWN AT MUNCIE

Hemingray Had Caused His Family

Much Anxiety.

[Special to The Indianapolis News.]

MUNCIE, Ind., December 2 - The pathetic suicide of Carlotta Campiglio Hemingray, the girl wife of Robin Hemingray, of Muncie, at San Francisco, has been a severe shock to the turfman's aged mother, who is a wealthy woman of this city. Hemingray's father is dead. His mother knew nothing of his marriage until informed of the suicide of his young wife by a telegram from San Francisco.

The career of Robin Hemingray since he left his home in Muncie, one year ago, has been one of romance and adventure. He grew up as a society idol and sport. Since the death of his father his mother and his uncle, Ralph Hemingray, a wealthy glass manufacturer of Muncie, undertook to reform the young man. He was put to work in the factory, but he ran away. He fell in with horseman and won thousands. He bought a string of race horses and they added to his coffers. Last summer, when he returned to Muncie, he showed his friends $8,000 which he had "cleaned up" on the races.