D.B. Chapin: County Judge, Texas State Representative, Millionaire & Killer

By David Rountree

Dennis Bangs Chapin was a successful, well-known lawyer, a Texas state representative, a former Hidalgo County judge and a millionaire in the year 1910. On Thursday evening, August 17, in a San Antonio bar, he shot my cousin, Oscar J. Rountree, in the head with his 44-caliber revolver. Oscar died at 5:00 the next morning in a San Antonio hospital. He was tried for murder and acquited claiming self-defense. After 1912 Chapin moved constantly and was involved in many legal battles and business ventures. He represented the second woman to die in the California gas chamber and a woman who cheated the Texas electric chair by committing suicide.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08GLP3YG1
• ISBN13: 9798678730169
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"