The evening world., 1921-07-16
EBERHARDT SHOT
HEMM|NG FOR AN
INSULT TO GIRL
Evidence Indicates This Was
Motive That Caused Care
taker to Kill Broker.
HAD LONG HATED HIM.
Victim Twice Warned of Fate
if He Tried to Enter
Wife'S Home.
HAD LONG HATED HIM.

Authorities of Suffolk County sad
Henry Glover Hemming. New York
broker, by Frank Eberhardt, care
taker on Mr.. Hemming's Duck Island
place. six miles from Northport, who
then killed himself. was a plain case
of murder and suicide, it is one of the
strangest crimes of the year.
Facts collected since the double
tragedy Thursday night show that
Eberhardt, an unkempt Austrian, four
years in the employ of Mrs. Helen De
Lespine Henderson Thorne Hcmmins,
had nursed a brooding hatred for the
broker for a long time. But il is he
lieved an insulting remark the broker
made Of little Helen Herdo'aon. ~ -
teen, Mrs. Hemming's daughter by
her first husband, had more to do
with Hemming's death than anything
else
Hemmings former wife was a sis
ter of the present Mrs Hemmng
the i'll feeling between the stold ser
ago. when Hemming and his former
wife visited the present Mrs. Hem
| ming at Duck Island
Eberhardt's devotion to the little
girl had been noticed during the four
years he had been on the place. lie
watched over her as carefully as if
she We're his own child 1t is believed
| his determination to Kill liemming
developed at the time the broker and
! his bride separated two weeks after
their marriage May 81 last Hem
ming had spoken i'll of the girl, and
Mrs. Hemming was SO indignant she
told Eberhard
| Mrs. Hemming told the District At
torney too day she was convinced that
this insult to the child had great
deal to do with the shooting
| Eberhardt had been told last month
by the Sheriff it was his duty to pro
tect his employer, Mrs. Hemming, and
when his commission as a special
deputy sheriff expired recently he had
it renewed Eherhardt had said in
the last two weeks that if Hemming
ever came to the house again he
would kill him. II appears everybody
else familiar with the affairs OF the
Hemmings feared he would do so, but
Hemming himself ridiculed the
threats
Hemming was torty-uine years old.
born in England and wealthy. He
married three times divorcing his first
wife, now the wife OF man named
Hart, and lost his second wife about
a year ago by death. He has one
child John G. Hemming, who lived
with his father. Hemmngs Office
was at No. II Broad street, and his
home at No. 31O West SGth street.
Mrs. Hemming, forty-nlno, born in
Galveston, Tex, Of French ancestry,
inherited a considerable fortune from
Henderson, her first husband but this
did not include the Duck Island place,
which Henderson left to his daughter.
Mrs. Hemming's second husband
was Richard Van Wyck Thorne, "A
stock broker Of this city who dis
appeared in 1915, leaving notes for his
wife and others saying they never
would see him again.
When Hemmng ana Mis- Hcndcr-
son Thorne applied for marriage
license May 81 at city Hall neither
declared two previous marriages,
Each declared only one. Why no one
could explain to-day.
Hemming did not usc alcoholic
liquors and Mrs. Hemm,ng does, ac-
cording to statements ol young Hem
ming, which were corrohoIated by
witnesses before the Sheriff Their
quarrel at Duck Island, thirteen days
after their wedding. was due in some
degree to this difference IN tastes, as
well as to Hemming's discovery in re-
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