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Did you know... that the intruder who shot J. P. Morgan, Jr. and bombed the US Senate in 1915 was identified by "Harvard Cop No. 1" Charles Apted as a deranged, wife-poisoning, ex-Harvard German instructor?

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One snippet reads, intriguingly: The then superintendent of the Harvard yard police was Charles Apted. On one occasion he was called by a lady living in Ridgeley Hall, a private apartment adjoining Claverly Hall, a Harvard dormitory. She complained to Mr. Apted that the... Apparently from [1], and with all due respect to the judge, this is an old joke (though it's not entirely impossible that he's the origin of it).`
pranksters secret
"Yale Gets Hot Under Collar As Mascot Stays At Harvard". The Baltimore Sun. 20 March 1934.

EEng (talk) 02:30, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

[2] NYT search, has much in copyright
Grapefruit incident: [3] [4][5]
https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/1043710 -- implies he had an AB???
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1940/2/7/colonel-apted-plans-to-resign-as/ -- reports the actual event instead of plans
[6] Clapper pilferage

Nice article[edit]

Great job EEng. Getting great readership too.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 09:54, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah [7] but from where? (Thanks, though. As you know I enjoy writing articles with all these droll quotes.) EEng (talk) 03:42, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]