New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Demand for Mrs. Hem
ming Refused by Assist
ant District Attorney:
He Calls Victim Brute
Saws Woman Did
Not Lure Husband
Poor Boy Says Matron
as She Leaves Wreath i'm
Memory of Caretaker

NnRTHPORT, L. l., July 16.-Sherifs
Tan r. Kelly demanded this evening
sat Mrs. Helen Hemming, whose hus-
hnd, Henry G. Hemming, was shot and
silied by Frank Eberhardt, caretaker of
he Hemming estate on Duck Island, be
i.tained by Assistant District Attorney
Casrles B. Partridge as material wit
asss. Eberhardt killed himself after
shooting Hemming.
Mrs. Hemming is said to have tele-
phoned at least three times to Eber.
hardt, prior to her departure for Duck
Island with her husband, to inform the
taretaker that Mr.. Hemming was COM
ing to the estate with her..
Mr.. Partridge refused to make the ar
tst and ignored the protest made by
lie Sheriff.
4 see no reason for OBTAINING Mrs.
iemming,' said Mr.. Partridge. "If 1
agrest her I would only have to release
aer on writ of habeas corpus. The
evidence shows she tried to keep Hem
Ang away and that she did not know
Eberhardt would shoot her husband.
she only went to New York to shop
sad we believe that mutual friends
sdyised Hemming his wife was in
town. He was brute, and Mrs. Hem.
iilng was afraid of him"
Why did she go to his apartm ent ?'
Partridge was asked.
TO talk things over" ne replied.
Hemming Had Own Way
why did she let him continue the
trip to the home on Duck Island Z"
She could not help herself. Hem
ming usually had his own way"
Why didn't she interfere and order
Eberhardt not to shoot? 2"
"She was not in a state to do So"
why did not Hemming stay in
Halls Hotel, in Centerport, on Thurs
day night and allow Mrs. Hemminp TO
proceed to her home in the car as abe
had requested ?"
! That would have allowed Mrs. Hem.
ning to take physical possession of
Hemming's automobile"
Are you going 30 arrest herr"
No., 1 am satisfied she did not lure
h'm to his death, and that she had no
eea ne would be killed"
Shortly before 10 o'clock Mrs. Hem
ming motored from her home to the
Undertaking. parlors of S. Robbins &
Son, on Woodbine Avenue, Northport
She went to the rear of the place ard
looked at the body Of Eberhardt. She
sad with her an enormous floral piece
maze OF flowers from her estate. She
leoked at the body q few minutes anc
Sald: Poor boyl" She then reenterea
aef car and went to the railroad sta.
non at East Nortnport, where she tool
ne 1880 train for Manhattan. Dur.
ing the ride to the station she passed
me Genola Cemetery, where there wa.
g freshly dug grave. The grave WA,
sor Eberhardt's body. Mrs. Hemmins
cid not alight from her car.
Services for Eberhardt
The funeral services for Eberhard
we're simple. At the grave were Mr.
and Mrs. Adolph Bauer, friends of tn,
qcad man, and man whose name coult
Aot be learned, but who was q cousil
o. Eberhardt. No one knew him. Ii
ssdluon to the floral piece brought b,
Mrs Hemming, there were three othe,
onsrings, only one Of which bore 4,
ssrd, reading, From a friend''
MRS. Hemming left the Duck Islant
aoaie to-day for New York, presum abl,
% go to the apartment of her husband
sna his son at $40 West Eighty-sixtl
street, Manhattan, where her hus
oand.s body is said to be.
Hflen Henderson is with a friend q
aes mothers nearly ten miles away
sNniie the reporter was at the Hem
ming home on Duck Island an expen
sue we automobile Of the limousine typ,
.olied up. Helen got out and wa
accompanied by an elderly woman, an
gare9tly member of y prosperou
.amiiy.The child refused to talk abou
sae tragedy. She spoke briefly il
s,sench with Charles Quirin, the but
.sf, Wno brought out some packages
sho the machine sped away. The ell
lame. ~ s'so Ae
sheriff Kelly's desire to have Mr..
;hemming arrested as witness is base
sssstgeiy upon his dissatisfaction wit
me explanation offered at the inaues
na IN statements by the Distric
assofney Of the three or four tele
paone calls Mrs. Hemming is said t
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