Even after the defalcation was made known there was nothing to indicate that any part of the money had been appropriated to his own use.

Yet the money had mysteriously disappeared.

Where was it?
Who had it?
These were questions the people of the State desired to have answered, but they have never yet been answered and, it is safe to say, they never will be.

Hemmingway no doubt could and can answer those questions, but he has not done so and the probabilities are that he never will.

He evidently believed that to turn State's evidence would render him more culpable than to be guilty of the act which he had allowed to be committed.