Thursday, Oct. 27, 1960 University Daily Kansan
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Meanwhile, Back at the Delta Sia House...
By Carol Heller
A slender, athletic blond man stood at the top of the stairs in the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house, looked both ways, tip-toed down the stairs, slid into his 1959 Ford, and drove away.
Robert Sutton had been living with the Delta Sigs since last Thursday. He took some sweaters and a raincoat, two gold fraternity pins, a blazer with a fraternity crest, and $5 with him. He left a string of bogus checks.
"And no one has seen him since," said Douglas Reed, fraternity president.
REED EXPLAINED that Sutton had said he was a transfer student from Louisiana State University, and that his father was soon coming to KU from LSU to teach in the history department.
"We called the registrar's office here and learned Sutton wasn't even enrolled. We called the history department and no one there had heard of his dad, either . . . and we called LSU, and they had never heard of the
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Suttons either," related Reed.
"THE FUNNY thing is, we all liked and accepted Sutton. He had a good personality . . . a real smooth-operator. He even looked like he was studying . . . we found some English themes and a page of strength-of-material problems."
Reed added that Sutton had said Floyd Temple had offered him a $500 baseball scholarship.
During the noon hour Sutton usually went out into the front yard and played catch with some other fraternity men.
"We called Temple, and he said he had talked to Sutton on the phone, but that no baseball scholarships are offered and that he hadn't met Sutton personally."
REED RECALLED that imitating other person's handwriting seemed to be Sutton's hobby.
"Sutton worked on my name and did pretty good, and he did so well on forging the treasurer's name that he was able to cash a $110 fraternity check," Reed said.
Reed said the fraternity had notified the Lawrence police and the fraternity's national headquarters.
"THE POLICE said Sutton had left a trail of bad checks all the way from Louisiana to KU."
But lest you women students chuckle too much because the wool was pulled over the Delta Sigs' eyes, let it be known that the "smooth-operator" dated several KU women . . . and he even went steady with one of them.
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