The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-18
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR
No Man Found to Lament the Fate
of the Infamous Dukes.
The President of a Louisiana College Killed
for Seduction by Young Preacher
Other Criminal Occurrences.
IN AN UNHoNoRED GRAVE.
The Remains of Dukes Buried Near Union
town, Pa.-Sympathy for Young Mutt.

The Remains of Dukes Buried Near Union
town, Pa.-Sympathy for Young Mutt.
PITTsBURG, June 16-The funeral of the
unlamented Dukes took place at II o'clock
this morning, from the residence of his
mother, Mrs. Struble, near Uniontown. But
few people from Uniontown attended it, and
among those were Sheriff Hoover Deputy
Prothonotary Starlight and two or three
others whose friendship for the deceased had
not been wholly destroyed. One of the
liverymen of the town refused to hire teams
to those whom he knew were prompted to
attend by curiosity only. He rented his
teams to relatives and personal friends of the
deceased, but his feelings against Dukes were
SO bitter that, in order that he might as far
as possible limit the size of the demonstra-
ton, he refused to hire to persons actuated
| by curiosity only However he did
| not have to deny many for there were few
who wanted to go. The officiating clergy
men were Rev. 1filholland, of the Presbyte-
rian Church, OF Uniontown, and Rev. NJ. c.
Bailey, pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian
Church, When they arrived at the house
they found that the neighbors of the Struble
/
leeted there Rev. Nilholland, who con-
\ Quoted the services, made them as short as
possible, both at the house and at the grave.
1 AT the former prayer was Offered, and its
4 fervent solemnity was intensified by the cir
H cumstances of the occasion. Then the usual
| hymn was sung, after which Mr. Milholland
/ merely said that it was not for him to judge
4 Dukes; that the deceased had been called be-
| fore the highest of all courts, where he would
4 repeive equal and exact Justice.
4 Before the cothn-lid was screwed down,
| Mrs. Struble was assisted into the room for a
| final look at the discolored and decomposing
| face of her son. 1t was hard to realize that
Il she would never see him again, and her
| grief was so intense that her weak and de-
crepit frame was unable to support its own
| weight. She rallied, however, and bravely
| followed her son over the long and tiresome
| road to his grave. The cortege numbered
ninety-two vehicles. There was no delay at
! the cemetery. AS soon as the hearse and
mourners arrived, the cof1i n was lowered into
the earth. Rev. Milholland said only,
| ''Ashes to ashes dust to dust" and turned
| away. Before the last carriage had entered
the graveyard the clods were rafting on the
| coffin of Dukes, and Mrs. Struble was being
| driven back to her desolate home. There
| were six pall-bearers, young men OF the
neighborhood, who had been friends and
companions of Dukes from childhood.
| Although Dukes was man of excellent
health and quite young-not yet thirty-three
| years of age-he did in his short life make
| two wills. The first one was made some five
or six years ago, just before starting on a
| trip to the West. A short time after his re-
turn home from that trip he destroyed that
will, and did not write the second one until
after he killed Captain Mutt. This second
one was written while he was in Jail. On
| the morning of the habeas corpus hearing he
was in his Office with the sheriff before the
hearing took place, and he called c. ID. Con-
nor who was passing by, to come in, and
said to him: "Here is my will. l want you
to witness it. for | do not know what may
happen" He doubtless feared that some
one might shoot him as he was going along
the street to the hearing No one knows the
contents OF this will, and will not until it is
| entered for record. Dukes was a man of
some little means. He possessed from IS, 600
to 1000 worth of property. A great deal
| OF this is in Western lands.
| kilograms continue to pour in to young
Mutt from all parts of the country. He re-
ceived dispatches to-day from Philadelphia,
/ Cincinnati St. Louis and Chicago, Offering
j him congratulations, and saying that If he
should need assistance to let them know.
He also received by mail twenty letters of
| the same tenor.
The authorities of Uniontown received a
telegram containing the signatures of sixty
| four residents of the Seventh ward, Philadel-
phia, congratulating them on the radiance of
| Dukes, and asking that their sympathy be
| extended to the Mutt family.