The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-28

| McCue out of the place
"Oh, you care for your jockey more
than you do for me. she exclaimed as
| she made a crap for q satcheI containing
a loaded revolver. which Hemingway ex-
planned that he always carried since ne
lad served in the army. Hemingway
said he took the revolver from her and
removed the cartridges, handing them to
his brother in an adjoining room.
DO you think 1 would commit suicide
over you?" Carlotta laughingly asked him
when he returned.
That is Hemngways version Of the
| ircident. He testified that on the night
that Carlotta killed herself that he re
turned from the race-track about six
| O'Clock in the evening. This was or Sat
urday, Nov. 30. He found her standing
before mirror.
Perhaps she was taking then a last look
at herself, gazing upon her own beauty,
in which she had taken so much de-
light in all her life.
Il spoke TO her as l entered the room, -
Remington said. Il happened 10 rernem-
Der that my brother had spoken to me
about a remark that Carlotta had made
( to his wife 1 said TO her You must not
gossip. as a gossip is a mischief-maker
You will make mischief. and / don't want
! you to gossip again. After that the
conversation ended. / then went To my
dinner. After dinner my brother and
myself went downstairs to buy the latest
magazines.
! When We returned / heard the pistol
1 when 7 in IN hal n
TO come from cur room. II made me
faint. l could not go in. l went TO Mr.
Locke. the proprietor and asked him to
enter the ROOM
Mr.. Locke went to the room. He found
Carlo the Beautiful" lying on the bed
her mothers picture pressed close To her
heart and gaping bullet wound in her
head. She had wound hex beautiful hair
in towel to protect it from the flow of
blood. ON dresser they found letter
TO Robert Remington and one TO Mrs.
Eose Hemingway Carlotta had killed
herself with the same revolver that Rob
ert Hemingway had once taken from
her
Al first the man said that he had mar
ried Carlotta Stenens four months ago
a year before When dispatch from
Cincinnati said that her mother did not
know that Carlotta was married, the man
made it an excuse for saying that he had
never married Carlotta.
He said that he had first heard of her
through a friend of his. who described
her beauty, charm of manner. her spright-
illness of conversation. This was when
she was in Indian :apolis. Hemingway
wrote TO her asking her to come to Chi
caso. She refused. Then he went to
Indianapolis to see her He Immediately
asked her to go to California with him at
once and she consented. They went to
Chicago. where she purchased some
clothes. and then started west.
There was never any sentiment be-
tween us" aid Hemingway Il never pro-
fessed to love her and she did not pro-
fess to love me. Although she was very
young she had much experience. Men
fairly uursued her, and she has enjoyed
the favor of -tWo- politicians -ofznationni
fame that | know of. There was no reason
why she should want to kill herself She
lnew that | would give her all the money
she needed and that l would pay her fare
home any time she wanted 10 go.
Il have had bad luck ever since / knew
her. She has been my hoodoo. First /
lest a gold cigarette case with my mono
gram in diamonds. and | have lost stead
lily at the track. Now comes this affair"
He said much more in the same tenor,
but these extracts show why the author
tiles of the Ingleside track ruled him off
and why people in San Francisco have
turned against him. They prefer TO be-
lieve what Carlotta said in her last let
ter.
And this was the en- dof Carlo the
Beautiful, who is dead at eighteen. who
from childhood had known only the plea
sure of living until her fate meet Robert
Hemingway. The joy-loving girl ended
her life at an age when most women
are just beginning to live. There can be
no better epitaph for her than the verdict
OF the Coroners jury. which wisely says:
The deceased. Carlotta Stefens. came
to her death by gunshot wound Of the
brain committed by herself with suicidal
intent. during a melancholy mood.