Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-01-24
THE DEADLOCK IN KENTUCKY.

LOUISVILLE, Jan. 32.-The demos
 crats in the Kentucky legislature
 are still unable to agree upon q
 candidate for a senator Louisville
 members refuse to honor the peti>
 tion of 15,000 to change their votes
 from Williams to Blackburn.
 UNSUCCESSFUL BURGLARS.
 l CHICAGO, Jan. 22.-The Times
 Austin Texas special states that
 burglars as Terrill, Texas, era Sle d
 under the side wllk and tunnelled
 through the different brick walls
 until they reached the foundation o f
 the bank vaults of Childers S Harris
 early Sunday morning; they blew off
 the outer door of the safe but failed
 to destroy the six inch steel door
 and time lock. A dense smoke
 caused an alarm and papers from
 the outer vault were found by the
 officers to be on fire. The safe
 containel $15,000 in money, which
 the robbers failed to obtain.
 TRIAL AND AcQUITrAL OF MUTT. PITTsBURG, Jan. 22.-The shoot
 ing of Captain A. c. Mutt, of Union
 town, Pa, ou the 24th of December
 1882, by Nicholas L. Dukes, was
 one of the mnst sensational of recen [
 tragedies. Captain Matt was the
 state cashier of Pennsylvania, and
 Dukes was prominent young law
 yer and a member of the Pennsyl>
 vania Legislature. Captain Mutt
 returned to his home from Harris
 burg on Sarurdl ly, the 23rd of Dec,
 and on the following morning, in
 comnany with his nephew. Clark
 Breckenridge, cashier of the Peoples
 bank went to the Jennings House, where Dukes boarded, to see the lat. ter. He was expecting the call, and had his room preparei l for the visi- tors. A. the doorway the two visi- tors paused, and then Captain Mutt entered alone In short time the sound of scuf1ling was heard. Breckenridge entered the room, found CaDtain Mutt and Dakes struggling,an1 succeeded in separat- ing them. At this jun ture John J. Feithers, sOn~in law of the landlord, reached the room, and found Breck- enridge holding the Captaln. Dukes then drew a revolver and fired at Mutt, the ball entering below the left eye and piercing the bra1n. He lDst consciousle and died in a few moments. lie had a cane in his hand, and revolver was found on his person. Captain Mutt was forty two years old, and left wife and several children. He had long been ] prominent in business ard politics. Dukes promptly surrendered him self | and renamed in jail until the 12 h of March, when he was placed on trlal. On the 14th of March the | jury acquitted him. On the rial it was shown that Capt. Nut had been l impelled to seek Dukes out hceauee of the receipt of letters from the lat Ter in which he admitted having had illicit intercourse with q yonng daughter of Nuts, but defended himself on the ground that the girl had made the first advances to him and char1ed that the girl had been loose iu her relation with other men. He also sIggested that the girl night he saved from exposure if the father would aid iu de-troving the growing evidence of her gr,i't.
 The acquittal of Dukes created in- tense public Indignation. The jurors were booted at in the streets and some of them barely escapsd Their action WAS de> n)uncc1 in public meeting anl Dpslses was compelled 10 resign his eat in the Legislature. He was Iiso warned to leave UniOntown, which he did, but shortly afterward etu' ned and announced his in'en- ion of remaining there. He took ID his quarters in the same room at he hotel where he had killed Mutt, nd was unmolestcd until tue even- ng of the 18th of last Jnne. when e was slot aui killed by James yutt, the 19 year-oll son of the nan he had murdered and brother f the girl he had seduced I Dukes was walking up Main ( treet to,warl his hotel, about half i ast seven in the evening. Young ' Tutt was standing in 8 door ray, and when Dukes reached | i'm he drew his revolver and fired t him, the ball taking effect in his de. Dukes started to run. pursue1 , ' Mutt, who fired second and 1 lird shot, each shot taking effect I fter the third shot Dukes fell to l le sidewalk, and Mutt. leaning over q in. emptied two more barrels into c is body, leaving him dear, In his Il Dckets was found the revolver with a hich he had killed Captain Mutt, l. nd dirk knife was attached to q lspender button. Young Mutt V surrendered himself and i as placed in jail. a Dukes was B yec ITS of age, grad s ,te of Princeton university, and p Id borne good character He U Id been engaged to the young n omen whose ruin he effectef Il After his deatb letter was dis u 'vered among his papers which O ltered into an elaborate defense of e g course lewlrd the Mutt family. sI h 2 latsar xvnC OroOarad with Q n