The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
Fly GORDON MCKINLEY

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 Stanley T. Fenton's ears must have burned yesterday, for he was very much talked of young man in Birming- ham.
 His bogus checks were floating about in the atmosphere of the Magic dropped from an aerorlane.
 Despite the chagrin and anger ex- pressed by those he had swindled. there was a subtle undercurrent of admiration in almost everything said about him. some guy" is about the gist of the preponderance of the com ment.
 As was said yesterday. Stanley T. was pleasant to look upon He elaimed to be, and those who met him con cured in the statement, 20 years of age, He was small, it might be said Napoleonic. in stature as well as nerve. with big dark eyes with long lashes, dark. shiny hair and a girlish com plexfon, and in his eyes was a look so innocent, so trustful. 80 friendly and disarmng that whatever he said went over the center of the plate so staunchly that any umpire would have called Strike"
 How much did Stan get? That will never be known. for today there are men in Birmingham who came across when Stan talked and who will keep the returned checks as souvenirs.
 It Is the consensus of opinion that if Stan had lasted here a month he would have gone away with every thing in Jones Valley except the rail- road tracks, leaving those because he needed them to travel on.
 NOT FULL MEMBER The Country Club states that Stan was not a full member but only a temporary one, being introduced by one of the regular members. whose spon- sorshio was accepted. But what Stan did with his ten-day visitors card causes speculation as to what he would have done~sd he joined for year. Research regarding the illustrious high grand potentate of check distrib- utors brought to light the fact that he was of Colorado origin. with Cali fornia education.
 Men who knew him here say that had he put third of the keen in- telligence. manner of address and gen eral personality he devoted to his work
 as he does it into legitimate business he would long ago have achieved such a financial success as his most ambi- tious trickery could never realize. | One doctors psychological diagnosis l of Fentons mind. from what he has heard. is that the boys brain is nat
 urally so highly developed that he has l slipped a cog and morally is not re- sponsible for his deYilment. |, That Fenton is abnormal all who met him agree, and many of them say that no man is capable of such sustained | acting Of a part unless there was a | screw loose somewhere, rendering him
 utterly immune from moral contri-
 tion.
 | His imagination ran riot. He be | lieved the things that occurred to him | as thoughts. Believing himself what he said his words rang true. l One thing he did was to gain i'm mediate access to the private office Of | one of the most influential captains of | industry in the district. a man who | had seen none but his business assocl- | ates, on bushes matter. for the last | months.
 | Several financiers are known to have | granted him private interviews and alsS
 said to have advanced him money or
 the strength of the presentation of hi I case.
 | It is known that he posed as th'
 agent of a Pittsburg corporation, an' | while here sought utilization with To cal institutions of the first magnitude He wrote for business connections witt