Charles R. Apted
"Colonel" Charles R. Apted | |
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Apted in 1918 | |
| Born | June 18, 1873 |
| Died | June 5, 1941 (aged 67) |
| Education | Chelsea Public Schools |
| Alma mater | Harvard College (honorary) |
| Occupation(s) | Chief, Harvard Yard police · Supt. of Harvard buildings · Cambridge City Councillor |
| Employer | Harvard University |
| Title | "Harvard Cop No. 1" |
| Spouse | Eva Catherine (Hunt) Apted |
| Parent(s) | Henry Edmund Apted Maria Chesterman |
Charles Robert Apted (1873–1941) was for 39 years a Harvard University official in various capacities, for much of that time chief of the Harvard Yard police ("Harvard Cop No. 1", the Boston Globe called him) and superintendent of Harvard buildings. His Boston Globe obituary called him "both feared and beloved by undergraduates during three university presidential administrations".
He gained national prominence in 1915, when he identified deranged former Harvard German instructor and wife-poisoner Eric Muenter as the dynamite-wielding intruder who had shot J. P. Morgan Jr. and bombed the US Senate.