Wrestler and All-Around Athlete, in Perfect Shape Despite 230 Pounds

Has Many Important Captures to His Credit Already

Patrolman Charles R. Donnell who early this morning captured Jeremiah J. Horgan and Henry T. Keefe, who later were held in connection with the killing of orccer Gonya of the Boston force, is 36 years old and lives at 50 Oak St, Norwood.

He wrestled with Stanislav Zbyszko several times and was engaged in the wrestling game for some years. He has also met other topnotchers In the profession. He has a splendid record both on the mat and in his career as a police officer. He is a swimmer, wrestler, boxer, football player, and all-round athlete, and was a manager of six-day bicycle riders in Madison Square Garden races some years ago, where, by the way, he was In the big gun battle between “King” Kelly, and Jack Sirrocco, onetime famous gunmen of the New York East Side.

He handled some of the famous bicycle riders at one time. He has done police work in Norwood for 12 years and has been a regular on the force for seven years. He is the son of John Donnell of Walpole, where the patrolman himself was born. His father is a yard superintendent of Winslow Bros & Smith of Norwood. Donnell was married in 1914 to Miss T Weller of Dedham. They have two boys Samuel and John, about 8 and 10 years of age respectively.

Caught Three Bandits

Three years ago he caught three bandits at the Norwood Postoffice, and he has several other notable captures to his credit. He has the town beat in Norwood from midnight to 8 a.m. and auto thieves and scam artists give Norwood a wide berth for he is known as a terror to evildoers. He swam at one time under the colors of the National Athletic Club or Providence at Bailey’s Beach, making a specialty of the 100-yard swim and the mile. He has beaten Wright or Salt Lake City and Alfred Peats of Australia at the mile distance.

He was a player on the Marlboro team of the old Bay State League and of the Newport eleven of the Rhode Island League. In the six-day bicycle races he formerly handled Major Taylor and Nat Butler of Boston, Mitten of Iowa, Jumbo Wells of New Zealand, Droback of Boston, Jacky Clark of Australia and many others of the highest rank. He handled the Australian team of Grenda and Goulett In Boston on their last appearance there.

He wrestles frequently and has been known to have a match in Boston at 8 or 9 p.m. and do his regular eight hours on his Norwood beat, starting at midnight the same night. Canoe facers, hockey stars, pugilists and wrestlers generally know him for a splendid trainer, though his favorite sport Is wrestling and he has given It his entire attention for the past two years. He assisted in the training of Matty Baldwin at one time and handled Sammy Mellor, when the latter finished second in the B. A. ,A. Marathon a few years ago. Always in Top Form In spite of his-230 pounds there is not a single ounce of waste fat on him. He can run, jump, and wrestle as well as ever. He does not smoke, drink, chew or use tobacco in any form.

This year he rounded up three yeggs, who had broken into the Norwood jewelry store of Howe & Dailey. He had his men in the station before the break was actually discovered. Entering the jewelry store later he discovered pieces of a billhead from a Walpole firm thrown behind the radiator. He called the Walpole police and asked them to try the store named. The Walpole FuiiK uiBuoverea. surely enough. that the store had been broken into. Returning to the station he found that the men, whom he had previously rounded up, had been released for lack of evidence. Later he rounded up the three burglars, who were well known to the police of Nashua, N H, by reason of a chance remark dropped by one of the trio. He went to Nashua, N H, in company with Chief William C. Klndelan and identified his men from the police files of that city. The city was searched, but failed to give any trace of the trio. One had gone to Hamburg, Germany; one to Waterbury, Vt, and a third to Rhode Island, The three were found in these places later, apprehended by Dbnnell, with the aid of a remarkable memory, and were sentenced to Jail at the last term of the Superior Court at Dedham. All three confessed.