Notorious city editor-tyrant of Joseph Pulitzer's New York Evening World, Charles E. Chapin was the greatest newspaperman in a time of great newspapers. In 1918, at the pinnacle of fame, Chapin, sunk in depression, shot and killed his wife in a bungled suicide attempt. After his trial-and one hell of a story for the World's voracious competitors-he was sentenced to life in Sing Sing Prison.