Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-21
YOUNG MUTT BEHIND THE BARS,
Grim C~oincidcnts i'm the Two Trage-
dies-Dukcs Popularity with
Women Since He Slew
Captain Mutt.
Special TO the Chicago Herald

Special 10 the Chicago Herald.
UNIOSrowN, Pa, June 10.-.No.
cannot talk about it. There is nothing
to say. This man killed my father. SLAM
dered my sister. and again and again
sneered at and insulted me on the streets.
How could help iti 1t was my duty to
myself and my family"
James Mutt spoke thus to his counsel,
and he closed his thin lips firmly rs he
uttered the words. He is yet II lad in
appearance and in manner. He is If
rather slender and awkward figure. ard
was clad in a plain suit of clothes
to-day, such as betitted his occupa-
ton, for he tended and worked his
fathers acres. Early in life he took upon
himself the hatsts Of a husbandlaan, and
devoted himself to the place ratloer than
to books. So quiet has been his life that
i'll IA community where every ma11 knew
his esteemed father none knew the son.
He was known as q boy of exemplary
habits AID entirely without guil+ So
small is his frame that he could easily be
taken for seventeen instead of past
twenty years of age. His features are
small but regular, and his mild blue eyes
hetoken ~ good temper. The Jail in
which he iSconfined is Il miserable str,Ic-
tare built many veays, ago. The inside,
in the part where the prisoner is con
fined, resembles the iron grating round
the boiler-ro pm of II steamboat. The
cells look like boxes encased in Il nat-
rk of iron bars. Tire male and female
prisoners are in the same apartment
when not kept i'll close cells.
There was asmotley gathering in tho
msin room this morning, but young Nutt
sat apart from them and had an entirely
different look from any Of the others. 81
ann rs comfortable as | cam expect to be
under the circumstances, " said he, and
then added. with a faint smile: eve
cannot have the comforts,,f home in a
place like this"
IL is a sorry place, indeed, but
the sheriff who keeps it says,he is making
young Mutt as comfortable as possible.
He stoutly denies the report that he ac-
corded Dukes liberties he is,denying the
present prisoner
There are grim coincidents, In all this
business. James. Mutt is confined in the
same apartment occupied by the man
| who murdered his father andswill be tried
before the same Judge. With one excep-
ton the same counsel will appear.
Dukes was a manwho summed the haunts
of men, but basked in the. society of
woman. He had pleasing manners, but
was anything but handsome. He was a
gross,fellow, short, feshy andwith a hitch
in his leg. He had a clean shaven face,
full and round, and with a sort of sancti-
monious, expression. He bad a glib
tongue, and insinuated himself into the
good graces of many ladies'. There are
not less than half a dozen women in this
iowa alone who are to-day trembling lest
their loving episfles to Captain Nuts
slayer will reach the public gaze. Ever
since his dastardly conduct toward Miss
Nurt, and his acIuittal for murder, re-
speatable ladies have received his atten-
tions and quarreled with each other for
hia addresses or his passions You may
win the passions of n. l.. Dukes, but his
love forever is mine," writes one to an
other. His effects are said to be freighted
with tender missives, showing many con.
GEests and inn1merable amours