In the late summer of 1920, the promising life of a young silent film star, Robert Harron, came to a tragic and mysterious end in a Manhattan hotel room. A native of New York City, the 27-year-old actor of Irish Catholic descent was in town for the premiere of the D.W. Griffith film, 'Way Down East.' On the evening of September 1, 1920, while staying at the Hotel Seymour, a single gunshot echoed from his room, inflicting a fatal wound to his lung. Harron succumbed to his injury four days later,
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