Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-16
Student Burglar
Led Double Life

Continued From Pare One
der Holfener's bed in the Walnut street
boarding house. 1t was taken to the
Thirty second street and Woodland ave-
nue. police station.
Five hundred dollars worth Of the
stuff has been identified as having been
taken from 9OS Spruce street on July
I12.
The men robbed were Christian
Weaver, William Reading and Milton
Kile. Walter G. May, 3011 Spruce
street, identified 5000 worth of the
booty rs having been taken from his
room on June 2S. Edgar Koeher.
$500 Locust street. identified $500
worth. Forty dollars in cash was taken
from the Palace Restaurant, 3449
Woodland avenue, on the night the
burglar was killed.
Burglar OF Varied Tastes
The booty includes jewelry, clothing,
suitcases, watches. collapsible UNI
brella, boxful of microscopic slides
taken from the McManes Library of
Pathology at the University, and stack
of talking machine records, with Mas
senet's "Elegie" at the top Of the
stack.
Louis Holfclner. of Buffalo. brother
of Anthony William Holfelner. sobbed
when he was told of his brothers death.
One of the first questions was, us it
true that my brother was a dope fend?'
He was assured that physicians who
examined the body said the marks on the
arm of the student were the results of
recent ivy poisoning, and not from the
use of drugs.
"I am glad to hear that" said the
Buffalo man. "This has been terrible
news and must break it gently to my
father and mother. They do not know
vet that he is dead. ! shall come to
Philadelphia Immediately. and hope to
bring my brothers body to Buffalo for
burial"
The dead mans father, Frank Hol-
felner. carpenter, now retired from
active business, said;
Gle attended Hutchinson High
School, but did not graduate. lie then
went to the University of Pennsylvania.
He would take no help from the family
and was working his way through col
lege. He went to Philadelphia five years
ago and in two years more expected to
get his diploma in medicine. He has not
been in Buffalo for three years. He
worked in Philadelphia during the sum :
mer to pay his college expenses. We un-
derstOod he was an accountant and did
other clerical work. Only last week he
wrote his mother and me, giving hope
full account of his examinations and
saving he had work for the summer. He
was in the students drill corps at the
university during the war;
Berger expressed great surprise
when he learned his former fellow
lodgar had been identified as the dead
burglar.
Liked by Students
. Holfelner was popularity known to
his classmates as "Bill." and as well
liked.
1T hardly seems possible to us that
1--WE regarded him as hard working,
clean cut. energetic student-the type
of man who would succeed in later life.
He spent most of his nights over his
books and consequently received high
marks in his studies.
singular as it may seem. the sum-
mer class was assembled yesterday for
the awarding of grades and when the
roll was called HOlfelncr was absent.
Naturally, we had all read the papers
regarding the attempted robbery and its
tragic ending and when Holfelncr failed
to answer some of the students jokingly
remarked. 4 guess Bill must be the dead
burglar little thinking that such would
prove to be true.
$50 far as his classmates knew. Hol-
felner had no bad habits. He neither
drank nor gambled nor seemed to have
much time for pleasure. He was of
athletic type, but never went in for any
of the collegiate sports. AS we under
stood. he was working his way through
college. and last summer was employed
by the Philadelphia board of health"
II am very sorry" said Doctor
Schappelle. in commenting upon the
Identification of the masked burglar.
Il did not know the student. And
have not to my knowledge ever seen him
on the campus"