Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-24
LIZZIE MUTT.
orrowfui Picture of the Home Where
Dukes Carried Ruin and Death.

Dukes Carried Ruin and Death.
/ lUniontown Special to Philadelphia Times
The residence of the late Captain
1 Mutt Is u fine, winged, bay-windowed,
| brick building, situated on hill over
/ looking the city. Your correspondent
called there this afternoon and had an
interview with Miss Lizzie Mutt and
her mother. Miss Lizzie is pretty:
her hair IS light brown, with
just Il suspicion Of redness about
1t; her eyes are large, hazel and liquid;
her mouth Is small and delicate
/ ~ shaped and her figure Is slen-
der and graceful. The expression of
her face shows that she has suffered Il
great deal. In fact, she looks and acts
as though she were completely broken
down, mentally and physically. She
expressed "A Willingness to do all she
could TO rcfute the allegations made
against her by Dukes and tried hard
To be calm and collecting during the
interview, but tears gushed TO her eyes
frequently and ouce she burst out cry
ing. She sat near center table while
speaking, and toyed with pretty pic
ture of an oriole, which was perched
on an easel.
There is not word of truth,r she
said, "In Mr. Dukes letter. What in
duced him 10 write them ] cannot
imagine, unless, indeed, his object
was to manufacture an excuse for
breaking our engagement. He
thought, | suppose, father would say
nothing about the letters. When
father showed them to me | was al
most stunned. | told him they were
untrue and asked him TO request Mr..
Dukes to call at the house and con
front me with his statement. Mr..
Dukes pretended that his personal
safety would not warrant him in com
ing, but in reality, he knew he had
told lalsehoods about me and
was ashamed to look me in the
face. Oh, that | should ever
have loved such man--but he is not
man. | can't understand how he
won my affection. Everybody has
been deceived by him and / most of
all. We had been engaged several
months. He was constant visitor
and was cordially received by the fam
lily. did not suspect that he wanted
the engagement broken, Why didn't
be tell me' Such II course would have
been manly and would haye com
nanded my respect. Instead of doing
this, however, he took my ring for
the purpose, he said, Of getting anoth-
er that would better please him, but
his intention was to get the ring
outsof my hands. Was that the act Of
Il gentleman? Then he wrote those
vile letters to father. All the world
knows the rest. | would rather have
have died than that this misery and
disgrace should have fallen on my
mother and her family. But, indeed
sir ann Innocent of each and every
charge brought against me. Oh, that
God would only let me die for shall
never nave any peace this side OF the
grave"
Mrs. Mutt sat in the room during
the interview. She is II del
icate and sweet-nced old lady.
II her face may be taken as
an index to her grief, her suiierings
| must have been severe. She corrob-
GRATED her daughters statement so far
as her knowledge went, and then adj
ded that to say the least, the verdict of
The jury had surprised her There is
a disposition among the leading peo.
! pie here To show Miss Lizzie that they
do not believe Dukes allegations bv
inviting her to visit their families. MS
they think this is the only way by
which all suspicion can be removed
She has not left home since her father
was shot. Her physical condition MS
Indicated 10y Dukes in his letters Is
false beyond doubt. Capt. Mutt was n
gentleman of education and refine
inent. lie was studious reader and
had one of the beat private libraries in
Pennsylvania.