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...next morning Mr. Lincoln made me a captain and sent me back. ... He shook my hand before I left and said: 'If we had more men of the same stuff, we'd get the job done.' " Steve Dutton helped build the New York Central Railroad; he knew John...
...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...
...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...
Under New York's Baumes (four-times-is-out) law, conviction would automatically jail him for life. Steve Dutton didn't give it a thought. Before the judge he pleaded not guilty: seems he was passing a building in his neighborhood when he remembered that the paper cutter inside was his own property years ago. He broke in, dismantled the 6,000-lb. machine, horse-carted it to a junkman to be sold...
...Steve rambled on: he was born near Ithaca, N.Y., when John Tyler was President; as a boy he saw Iroquois Indians roaming the woods. His grandparents gave their land to Cornell University-so he said. In 1861 he enlisted in Pennsylvania's 71st Infantry. "I fit in the Battle of Gettysburg. A Minieball took the tip of my finger off. Shell creased my scalp. When the battle was over I rode a horse to the White House to tell the President. ... I left Gettysburg at 3:30 p.m. and arrived at Lincoln's place at 9:15 that...