Charles Robert Apted
(1873ā1941)
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 suĀperĀinĀtendĀent of Harvard buildings.
His Boston Globe obituary called him "both feared and beloved by underĀgradĀuĀates during three university presĀiĀdenĀtial 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.