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...When Harry Chapin Smith, 84, died last fall and was buried in Potter's Field, most of his Brooklyn neighbors assumed that he had been what he appeared to be: a toothless, poverty-stricken derelict, who lived in a one-room hovel and sold odds & ends of junk picked up on nighttime scavenging rounds. Last week the true identity of Harry Smith came to light. The old derelict was a wealthy Harvard man, long respected by his brokers for his canny investments. Total of his estate's assets: about $400,000 in cash, bonds and blue-chip stocks...
...real life, Charles Chapin, city editor of the New York Evening World, went to Sing Sing in 1919 for the same crime...
Genealogists and lawyers worked overtime during the weekend, mulling over the claims and counterclaims of alleged relatives of Harry Chapin Smith '01. Three more cousins have appeared, bringing the total to seven...
...hopes that the University might get the $500,000 left in an old safe deposit box by the late Harry Chapin Smith '01, were dashed yesterday when the Brooklyn Eagle turned up four possible heirs, all cousins of the eccentric recluse. No will has yet been found...
...Dean Chapin of the Business School expects him to be "one of the three most outstanding speakers that will appear this year." He did not mention the other two. The talk will be held in Langdell Hall...