Show EDITORS EDITOR'S WIFE FOUND SHOT TO DEATH INN Y Y J j j Newspaper Man lan Disappears D Leavin Leaving ig t Note P Pi Predicting Own Demise r. r New lor York Sept Mrs Mrs Charles E. E Chapin wife of or the cIt of or thew the th ew York Evening Wbk was found Cound dead with sith a bullet wound In her head headIn In the h bedroom droom of oC t the e Chapin apartment apartment apart apart- ment In the Hotel Cumberland rland here la late te toda today Discovery of oC Mrs body bod followed followed follo fol fol- lo lowed ed receipt b by Don business manager of tho the evening E W of a a. aletter I. I letter signed Charles E. E Chapin In which the writer v. hinted al at e and added q My h wife has been heen such a good pal palI I cannot cannot lea leav i h her t alone inthe world 1 The police immediately began beJan a search earch for Cor AIr Mr Ir Chapin but up to a late hour tonight he had not been oen found I At the offices of the Evening C World It was said that Mr Chapin had been In falling health for tOI several years ears and that for the past year ear h he lias has been constantly constantly con con- In- In un under er the care of r a physician Life Happy The Time lett letter r r received received received-br by J f Mr M. Selta SeItz late tod today said I sf have lia been b cn t my m wife for Cor thirty nine years ars and have been happy during that time lime 1 I am ani conscIous conscious conscious con con- of being on the vege of r a nervous nerv ous brenk breakdown own and anti It is s apparent that the time Is close bv by when I will wilt completely completely com corn collapse When hen you get set get this letter I will b be dead My Iy wife has been such a R good hoOd pal pat I cannot leave h her r alone in the world The d with directions directions r. is body I as to y r J t nn ana f or i f-i improperly T nl 1 When the police polke entered tho tIo Chapin apartment the they found the hod body of Mrs Irs Chapin lying on a bed Thy Thy- I had been said she apparently dead sine since carl early morning No o one I II could be found who had heard a shot I The police learned that Mr Chapin ChapinI 1 I left the thc hotel apparently In good spirits spir its at 90 a. a m. m first pinning a note on his apartment door reading and requesting the Dont disturb hotel clerk to plug the telephone connection con con- I to the apartment and see that Mrs Irs ChapIn was sas not disturbed as she sIte had been Ill III during the night I n ns Wile VIf Had Chill Leaving the hotel Mr tr Chapin met met Frank D. D Carruthers of the Evening enin Worlds World's business staff whom he told that he had Just returned from a vaca- vaca and had Imad planned to logo go o to his office of of- of Ice fice In the World orId building but that the illness of his wife trite would prevent pre ii him She got sot a chill in bathing jester yester yesterday day he added I A chauffeur Informed the tho poll police that Mr Ir Chapin had driven to the thc vicinity of oC the time Grand Central station And nd later about 4 p. p m. m returned to the hotel It also was waR learned that Mr IJ Chapin had hatI an appointment to meet a friend tonight at the Manhattan Manhat Manhat- tan Beach each bathing pool where he spent much of or his leisure time However How How- ever e he did not keep this appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment mont and police pollee have hn no further trace of him Mr Ir Chapin ha has b been en cl editor of oC the Evening B World orld for tor twenty years ears and Is one of oC the most widely known newspaper men in tho ho countr country Forten for forten ten years ears before coming to Nest Xe York he was wat connected with newspapers s under the Pulitzer administration In I various arlous other cities I |