The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-06
CHOPPED By A WOMAN
James Mutt, Who Killed Lawyer
Duke, Fatally Hurt
raAoEDv At ArcH.sos. KAN.


AfchAsm Kan.. Feb. E.-Jame1 Mutt.
made famous mr. idl15ng Lawyer W. w.
Duke In UntontOwn. Pa. over decade
$50. becanse ~ se7uced Miss Mutt. i
dying from wounds infzscted by Mrs. John
PAyson. who cusunuttned the cot after
Mutt. tn . drunken rage. hAd fatally shot
her. NeitAer can I'VE. Lleonard Cole
man. . hzred man. who aktsuzp<sd 70 Ass
Ars- R&yson's life. i lying seriously
weundsd having received . bu2lse from
Nuts revolver. but VIII recover. Tho
crime was most horrible ana unprovoksd.
Tie nrumknence OF the faxuf1ies concerned
makes Il more Sensational.
The Nutts ard Dukes were ~ enc time
prominent poibccians In Pennsyivanaa.
fourteen year1 $50 W. w. Duke. q
prominent lawyer In UnaonEown Pa. was
killed By Mutt for having seduced Miss
MUTT. Before that the Nuts and Dukes
wers at war good deal. and during one
OF several encounterS Duke killed Nuts
father. He was acquitted. however. max
ing the plea Of self-defense. When young
Mutt camp TO trial be was promptly CO.
Quisfed tha TRIAL creating . great sensa.
lon IT the time. Shortly aferward he
moved to Kansas and bought q farm.
He was considered . good cisisen, and
became prosperous. Untfl two years ago
the Paytons worked for Mutt. Irving on
his FARM Tsssir relations became
strained however. and the Payton FAM
lily. consisting o< the parents and ave
cnfldren. rented . farm eight miles from
Nuts place. PAXTON has bean away
from hoEnA mast OF the winter, cutting
ice. during which, time Nutt renewed his
relations with che family. Nothing out
OK the way waz discovered In his con-
duct however. until last night. when he
sauntered into The Payton household at
. late hour under the tnfiuence Of nQuor.
Payson was absent. aud Coleman. the
hired man. was the only other man ON
the premises. Mutt. who had been ON a
weeks spree. was In no pleasant mood
and gruffiy ordered Mrs. Payton 10 get
him some supper. Mrs. Payton COM
pied. though more through fear than
because she cared To- and seeming
trouble she quietly got the children from
the room.
As he ate. Mutt became more abusive
toward Mrs. Payton, and when he finished
eating he deliberately drew hts revolver
and. pointing It at the now Thoroughly
frightened woman, cried: I'm going to
kill YOU" Before she could make . move
he had carried his threat into effect and
sent three bullets into her body. The
shots attracted Coleman, who rushed tn 10
the house with an ak In his hand. The
Instant Mutt saw him he leveled his weap-
on at ham and fred Two shots struck the
wou1d-5e rescuer. He fell to the floor.
and for . time lay unconscious. In the
meantime Mrs. Payton. with q snperihu-
man effort. had raised herself from the
hoor and secured the AZ. Rushdng upon
Mutt. the woman, her wounds bleeding
profuseiy and herself weak from excite
ment and loss of blood. rained blow after
blow upon his he&d Not until her vic
TINS head was q mass Of pulp did she de-
slss. when she sank to the floor urcon-
scioiis. When Coleman finally regained
consciousness he found both Mutt ana the
woman lying h great pools OF blood. Both
will die. Mrs. Payton was Is years old
Miss Mutt. from whose set.uction two
murders resulted. died two years ago
She was married and had lived in much
privacy.