Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23
NO ROOM FOR DUKES IN pENNsYIvAN1A

-NAH L1ENtfo IN FEHNHl A
 Some months ago it became known ln Unlontown, Pa, that Nicholas l.. Dukes had written letters to Captain Nuts, Of the same town, in which he boasted Of having had illicit intercourse with the Captains daughter. Not con- tent with this he even went so far as to give publicity to some town gossip affecting her character. He also made the proposition that crime should be committed in order to conserve the bo1er ot the family. Captain Nuts, goaded to desperation by these attacks on the character of his daughter, sought an interview with Dukes, when an angry altsrcahOn followed, the details of which are by no means clea-, but Captain Nuts was shot by Dukes, the ball penetrating his brain, and he fell dead at the sedu- cers feet. Dukes was tried and acquit- ted by jury, which decision was received with surprise and disgust. The judge who tried the case rebuked the jury, but discharged the prisoner, who was that same night hanged III efiigy. Dukes was d lawyer, and at the time a member of the Pennsylvania Leglsla- ture, which body refused to allow him to meet with them and declared his seat vacant. Dukes left Uniontown for a time, but recently returned. He is re- ported to be an uncouth, disagreeable, overbearing man. James Nuts, the second son of Captain Nuts, is a young man about twenty-one years of age. He Is said to be of peculiar turn of mind, not very sociable, and decidedly retired When his father was murdered, many predicted that yOung Nuts would ayenge the murder of hIs fathe-. It is said Dukes himself feared this boy more than any other person. Mrs. Nuts was also apprehensive that her SOB would take the matter into his own bands, and tired hard and often to obtain a promise from him that he would take nc rash measures, but be consistently refused to make any promises. 4 few days ago he returned home ID 8 very irritable mood, and said to his mother, "I can't stand this. l met Dukes on the street to-day and b. laughed in my lace" On the 18th inst
 Dukes was on hls way to the postOffice
 when young Mutt stepped out of a room which joins that office, pulled a reyolvei and fired two shots at him in quick sue cession. Dukes looked around and then started to run. when Mutt fired agaiU and followed in close pursuit; as Dukes entered the postoffice Nuts fired two more shots, when Dukes fell heavily, and ID a moment he was dead. Younl Nuts was immedigtely arrested, placed in prism, and Is now awaiting trial The sympathies of nine-tenths of the people of Uniontown are with young Nuts, and while in the eyes of the writ ten law, he has committed murder, there Is passage of unwritten law that under such aggravating circumstances iustifies the act, aud it is to be hoped that wheI a jury is empaDellec to try the case then decision may be made under the latter law. Such miserable creatures as Dukes must be taught that the precincts of the family altar cannot be entered and robbed of its most sacred virtues, and murder the father who attempts tC shield his daughters honor without swift retribution. Murder under any and all circumstances should be depre cated; and while we cannot approve the act which brought Dukes to an uutimel, grave, We believe the world will be bet ter of now that it is known where he is buried.