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Show Dr. Harry Lorenzo Chapin Found in Room With Skull Crushed. MET MAN IN HOTEL Shreds of Paper May Lead to Discovery of Party Who Killed Blind Doctor. CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 9. The mystery mys-tery surrounding the murder of Dr. Harry Lorenzo Chapin, physician, author au-thor and traveler, by an unidentified assailant in a room at a downtown hotel Mast night, remained unsolved today, to-day, although orders were issued from police headquarters for the arrest of a man who was known to have been in Cleveland. The skull was fractured by a blow on the back or the head and according to Coroner Byrne, the fact that the skin was not cut suggests that the doctor doc-tor was struck from behind with a heavy weapon, probably a section of lead pipe or a paper weight wranned in a handkerchief. I Mrs. Chapin, the widow, told police , that her husband went to the hotel , in the afternoon to meet a man who ; recently came from Chicago with : whom he had had business dealings in the past- j Shreds of paper found on the floor of the room gave the police clues be lieved to suggest a possible motive for the crime. Some of the scraps, pieced together, jwero found to relate to an express . package shipped to Cleveland by a j man in Chicago and which, the po'lice , believe, was to be delivered to Dr. I Chapin on payment of $100. Police investigation in-vestigation developed that Dr. Chapin I within the week had withdrawn 100 from a bank. On the pieced together I scraps of paper the police discovered the name of a man for whom search i immediately was instituted, i Dr. Chapin, known to a wide circle of friends us 'The Blind Doctor," was j 47 years old and had spent the greater part of his manhood in travel. He had been blinded by the glare of desert , sands when shortly after leaving col-if col-if i - he visited the ruins of Babylon in Mesopotamia and neglected to wear ' irb;ui or dcrk glasses. Later an operation partially restored the sight and he was able to find his way about without assistance. He had wrlteen several bocks aud was the author of a number of photoplay scenarios. Twilight and Death Strangely "Twilight and Death" is , the theme of one of his poems fea-1 fea-1 tured in his last published work. The , poem entitled "The Soul of the Sun," ,contains such seemingly prophe'ic , stanzas as these: "The Angelus ringing reminds me That the evening of life is at hand: j Death takes me away as he finds me Time loaned I am to pav on de- mnnd. Ob, death's like the sun In its sinking; We live but to dust we have gone, Of the cnp of life we are through I drinking Then the sun-setting soul must pass on." ! Servants Hear Excited Talking i When Dr. Chapin left his hotel yesterday yes-terday he told his wife, she Btated to the police, that he was going to another an-other hotel to keep an appointment. Attendants at 'the latter hotel hoard I two men excitedly discussing business , j affairs in a room on tho third floor. I Late, in -theaftriioon-tainsjector at the hotel discovered a man lying midway between two windows in the room with blood streaming from his head. The room clerk at the hotel told the police that he registered a stranger at 8 o'clock yesterday morning and assigned as-signed to the room in which Dr. Chapin was killed. The visitor carried a small black grip and signed his name and city in an almost illegible scrawl. Police believe both name and city to bo fictitious. oo |