Charles E. Chapin was an American editor of Joseph Pulitzer’s Evening World. He was convicted of the murder of his wife and sentenced to a 20-year-to-life term in Sing Sing prison.
Chapin in 1920
An example of breaking news photography published by Chapin—W. J. Gaynor after being shot, August 9, 1910
Nellie and Charles Chapin at the race track
Sing Sing Correctional Facility, formerly Ossining Correctional Facility, is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York. It is about 30 miles (48 km) north of Midtown Manhattan on the east bank of the Hudson River. It holds about 1,700 inmates and housed the execution chamber for the State of New York until the abolition of capital punishment in New York in 1977.
Sing Sing
State Prison at Sing Sing, New York, an 1855 engraving
Warden T. M. Osborne
Aerial view of Sing Sing, 1937