Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-13
FOOTBALL STAR IS
A THIEF CATCHER
APPREHENDS OFFENDER WITH
FLYING TACKLE
cuIprit Leads His Captor a Long
Chase but Training Tells
and Young Man Is
Overtaken

PHILADELPHIA, June 12.-"Bob"
Folwell, PENIS famous halfback and
hammer thrower, gained new glory by
capturing a man who. 1t is charged,
had been detected going through" the
clothes Of baseball players in the
Franklin Field gymnasium. After an
exciting chase in which he outstripped
all competitors, Folwell finally landed
the alleged thief by a flying football
tackle on Hamilton walk, beside the
insane department of the Philadelphia
hospital.
The prisoner gave his name at the
| time as Joseph Nally of Buttonwood
street near Sixteenth. but later at the
station house changed 1t to Harry A.
Holten of South street near Third. He
claimed that he was a student in the
first year dental class at the university
last year, but neither of the names
given appear in the official catalogue.
After four years victorious career as
football player, wrestler and ham
mer thrower, Folwell closed his athletic
career at the intercollegiate track
championship contest on Franklin
Field by winning a point for Old Penn
in the hammer throw.
Series of Petty Thefts
Articles of value were missed from
the dressing rooms at the Pennsylvania
gymnasium last winter with painful
regularity. Every time anyone would
get a little careless and leave closets
| open, money, cuff buttons or something
of value would disappear. This had be-
come a frightful nuisance, but all eff
forts to find the thief had been vain.
Things got so bad that students eyed
one another askance and locked things
up from their best friends. FolWelPs
capture may clear this whole mystery
up, and if so, he will once more have
earned the undying gratitude of some
5000 students.
Folwell was standing with Trainer
Mike Murphy on the plaza just outside
of the gymnasium watching the base
ball game. then just beginning. Two
rubbers, deputed to guard the clothes
of the Amherst players, strewn around
on benches inside, were lured away by
the game and were standing behind
Murphy and Folwell. One of the In
Vulnerable small boys who congregate
| thereabout, looking into the dressing
room through a small window from out
side the field, spied young man going
through the clothing. He ran around
| to the gate and set up cry OF "thief."
Folwell heard him and rushed toward
the dressing room.
Made Flying Tackle
AS he neared the doorway some one
met him, but Folwell went on in. Then
he realized that the man he had met
must be the thief, and started in pur-
suit. Up to that time the youth had
been walking toward the gate. Seeing
Folwell after him, he started to sprint,
and went through the gate into Thirty
third street, leading Folwell by almost
100 feet Out Spruce street he ran, then
down Thirty-fourth toward the Phila-
delphia hospital. When he had run
about 100 yards along Thirty-fourth
street Folwell was almost upon him and
he turned out Hamilton walk, which
runs up through the botanical gardens
behind the dormitories. Another 30
Yards and Folwell nailed him by fly
ing tackle and was proceeding to in
fiict summary punishment, when the
pursuers arrived and counseled calmer
methods. y
Folwell marched his captive back to
Franklin field holding him by the back
of the neck and shaking him every few
steps. At Franklin field the man was
searched and it is claimed two watches,
two wallets and pair of cuff buttons
were found in his pockets.
The students locked him in Mike Muir
pbv's room with Mate" Cartmell, cap
tain of PENIS track team, standing
guard. When Jimmy Cassidy. the gym
nasium janitor arrived, he said he knew
the man was a student in the university
last wear. but could not remember his
name. He said he had chased him out
of the gymnasium several times this
year, and had begun to suspect that he
was responsible for the many petty
robberies occurring around the locker
rooms.
The youth was then handed over to
patrolman of the Twenty-first district,
and at the station house he gave his
name as Harry A. Hatten.
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