The evening world. Newspaper, September 17, 1918, Page 6

AFTER TRAGIC TH OF HIS WIFE 2 saktlias | Pains in Head, Brought on by © Worry Over Financial Affairs, Caused Slaying, He Says. ‘wite in their apartment at the Oum- Derland Hotel, was arraigned tn the West Side Court this afternoon on a charge of homicide. He pleaded mot guilty, was held without bail for action of the Grand Jury, and was re- manded to the Tombs. fe was rop- resented by Joseph Kenting, whowe law office is at No. 49 Broadway, Mr. Chapin made the following statement to Assistant District At- torney James McGee in the Homi- cide Bureau at Police Headquarters: Financia) diMculties were the cause and base of all my trouble, 1 inherited @ sum of money some time ago, invested it and lost it I bor- money, believing that T could tide my- | York journalism: self over and eventually rearrange my financial affairs. Lately 1 have been aick. I have been thinking hard and have bad terrific pains in my bead. “Yesterday morning when I awoke I was greatly depressed mentally a-d suffered acute pains, I believed 1 was going insane. I thought of my creditors preasing me and decided to end it all, I thought of my wife. We had been good pals for many years and I decided to take ber with me, “I first tried the magazine gun, but it would not work. I then took Leon constantly pressing me Charles E. Chapin, after surresder- $e bimself to the police iis morning healed that ugly skin eruption! Resino| heals skin sicknesses be- cause it contains harmless antidotes Resvine! Ointment heals skin irrita- tiora that if neglected become serious. One small pimple or slight blotch mare the most beantifnl face. A patch and for such conditions. and other skin affections, so not hesitate to ase it, As rowed from friends and they have “Four years ago I reached a point where I decided to commit muicida 1 and confonsing that he had killed Iiahesitated long enouzh to borrow more Resinol Ointment was originated by a doctor for the treatment of ecremia need dealers, the police revolver which was pre- sented to me by former Police Com- misisoner Waldo, It worked. After T bad kill her, I came downstairs In the elévator, had breakfast and was shaved. I took the subway to Brooklyn and went to Prospect Park. I had the police revolver with me. ‘I sat down on a bench intending o Kill myself and had drawn the revolver from my pocket when a policeman approached. I placed it in my pocket again and began to walk about. How tong I walked I do not know. My head ached eo. Soon I got the papers and saw that I was wanted for murder, so I decided to sive myself up.” During the entire time that he was talking to the Assistant District At- torney, Mr. Chapin sat doubled over with Nis head bowed. He continually rubbed hia forehead and the back of his head aa he spoke. District Attorney Swann saw Mr. Chapin, questioned him and afterward ald: “I have no doubt that he ts mentally @eranged. I had seen him last about ix months ago. When I talked with him to-day the change was atartling.” Reporters who had known Mr. Chapin for many years offered to take any statement or to do anything that they could. “Nothing, thank you,” he nid, and afterward be asked that no one be permitted to eee him. Ho was espe- cially anxious to avoid eneing those who had been his associates in New Mrs. Chapin was Nellie Beebdie of Chicago and was married to Mr, Chapin in 1879, She was about sixty years old Mr. Chapin bad been connected with The World organization ip’ 4 1889, From 1889 until 1898 be wa: editor of the st. Louls Post teh, owned by Joseph Pulltzer. In 1898 he became city editor of The Evening World. pL EDITORS DRAFT AID LAUDED. ial nee given the draft registration in June, 1917, by the New Jersey Freie Zeitung and in- troduced as evidence to-day in the Federal Court at Newark in the trial of Benedict and E. 8. 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