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...those days the old New York Herald made line drawings of Stephen Dutton's sharp-featured face, his sleek mustache...
...Stephen Dutton was always considered a very fast man with a dollar - preferably someone else's dollar. But in his prime, in the dim, goldbrick, 0. Henry era of gentle grafters, patent-medicine fakers, conmen and bunco artists, Steve the Swindler was regarded as especially expert in talking himself into funds and out of trouble. He ranked with Grand Central Pete and Paper Collar Joe, who were tops in bilking the rubes; for a time Steve Dutton was partner of the old master, Perrin Sumner, who was known in the Gay '90s as The Great American Identifier...
...away in Sing Sing, to the widespread dismay of widows & orphans. But the clippings faded yellow and crumbly in newspaper morgues; the detectives who arrested him and the judges who sentenced him faded and crumbled too. In Brooklyn's once-tough, now tame Red Hook district, Steve Dutton has recently lived in a frame house with his two dogs, three cats (two of them 22 years old), and a 21 -ft. snake, preserved in formaldehyde, which he said he caught in Florida...
Three weeks ago Stephen Dutton, 97 years old, was arrested again. The charge: stealing a three-ton paper-cutting machine...
...they expected to see a doddering oldster, they were surprised. Old Steve Dutton is built like the village smith, bullnecked, his nearly-six-foot frame wrapped with 180 Ib. of muscle as tough as a lion-tamer's boot. He has never worn glasses. His hearing is acute. Neat in a black suit and powder-blue topcoat, clean shaven and impatient, he stomped out under the bright lights, roaring in a deep black bass. He raged at being held without bail, bawled out a stripling cop who dared touch his shoulder...