New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-16
Broker Harry f. Hem.
ming Shot Dead as He
Seeks to Enter House
With Estranged Wife
Her Daughter Sees
SheriH's Aid Fire
Woman Had Phoned Him
to Bar Entrance; Dies
Near Body of Victim

NORIHPOkI, l.. L., July 15.--ln the
presence of his bride, from whom he
became estranged thirteen days after
tGeir marriage on May 1S last, Harry
G. Hemming, a stock broker of New
York was shot and killed instantly at
o'clock last night at View Point,
the country home of his wife Mrs.
Helen Henderson-Thor Hemming. on
Dpck Island
Hemming was slain by Frank Eber-
Fart, special deputy sheriff, care
taker of the estate, who then shot and
killed himself.
There was no motive for the mur-
der, according to the authorities, ex-
cspt Eberhart's conception of loyalty
70 Mrs Hemming. with whom Hem
ming was attempting to effect recon
citation. Mrs. Hemming, it was said
lad ordered Eberhart to prevent her
husband entering the home
Bullet Misses Stepdaughter
The broker was shot twice as he
st9cd on the veranda steps of the Sc
Guided country place, one bullet strik-
ing him in the head and the other in
the abdomen. A third bullet Just
missed Helen Henderson, fourteen years
cid, d daughter Of Mrs. Hemming by a
icNmer marriage.
Eberhart gazed calmly for moment
1T the body of his victim.
''Goodby," he said to Mrs. Hemming
take good care of that child"
1aen, revolver in hand. he rushed to
ms room. pursued by Charles Quirin
the Butler. Before Quirin could inter
fere Eherhart raised the weapon to his
right temple and fired. He died in
staDtly
Word Of the affair did not reach here
ntil early this morning, when Hem
ming's chauffeur, who had driven the
int, reported the murder and suicide
Sheriff Kelly.
He.nming was Mrs. Hemming's third
aesbafd, heis previous husbands having
5een George Henderson, former owner
q Duck Island, now dead, and Richard
Ihorne of New York, from whom she
vas divorced eight years ago, and
whose subsequent disappearance was
the subject of Investigation. Hem
pling's first wife. who is dead was a
sister Of the present Mrs. Hemming
According to Mrs. Hemming the
separation resulted from difference.
over money matters. Mrs. John Fl
Hemming, wife Of Hemming's son by a
sormer marriage, with whom he had
been living at 80 West Eighty-sixth
4 Street, Manhattan, disputed this ex-
pianation, however, declaring that the
conduct OF the brokers' wife was the
cause.
The case was officially declared to be
one of murder and suicide by Coroner
William B. Gibson, who conducted an
inquest at the house this morning, Mrs,
Hemming, her daughter and the butler
being the witnesses.
In her version of the tragedy, given
to Assistant District Attorney Charles
S. Partridge, Mrs. Hemming said she
met her husband Unexpectedly at the
Pennsylvania Station in New York on
Thursday afternoon and that he sug-
gested they discuss their affairs. Hem
ming, she said, induced her to go with
him in his car to the Hemming home
in Eighty Street, where they
talked over their differences for several
hours. AS the hour was late, Mrs
Hemming said, she consented to the
suggestion of her husband that he drive
her to View Point.
Phoned Guard at Her Home
Mrs. Hemming told Mr.. Partridge that
on the way out they stopped at chop
house at Centreport, where she tele-
phoned to Drck Island and instructed
Ebernart to prevent her husband from
entering the house upon their arrival.
She declared she had no thought that
hoerhart would shoot, saying she be-
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