Show il i GOOD WORK 1 f J All honor to Master Jim Nutt II of Uniontown May his tribe i increase He is a brave and noble i boy who does honor to his father and is worthy the love the admiration I admira-tion and almost reverence of his f t sister The affair which led to the j f tragedy recorded in Wednesdays i i issue of THE HERALD Is fresh in 1 the minds of the public N S Dukes a lawyer politician and t memberelect of the Pennsylvania legislature had been keeping company com-pany with the young daughter of Captain Nutt a gentleman who stood high in local political circles A marriage had been agreed upon j and the preliminary arrangements were being made when one day the captain received a letter from Dukes in which the latter asserted his long continued criminal I intimacy with Miss Nutt charged that others whom he named had enjoyed her favors I j also alleged that she was little else than a town strumpet and declined to fulfil his marriage promise 1 Until that time no suspicion had been cast upon the girls character i j her reputation in the community f where she had been born and raised t being absolutely free from reproach The proper and justifiable thing for Nutt to have done upon the receipt re-ceipt of the letter would have been 11 i 9 to hunt Dukes down and kill him on sight It is impossible to conceive con-ceive a viler wretch than Dukes letter showed him to be Were his accusations true he should have been the last man in the world to assai I the girl he had debauched but theE the-E fellows baseness was intensified by j cruel invention and the wickedest wicked-est slander It is generally accepted i that the unfortunate girl was innocent in-nocent of all wrongdoing Instead In-stead of shooting Dukes to death as r he would a skunk or other vile creature 1 crea-ture that hud assailed him IB t t Captain Nutt being a man i i of peace and desiring if possible t 1 possi-ble to avoid a scandal from 1 U r which he and his must unavoidably 1 unavoid-ably suffer sought a meeting with i 1 the slanderer with the intention of I adjusting the affair quietly Dukes appointed his own room In the hotel as the place of meeting and Nutt J W went there at the designated hour A li whereupon Dukes deliberately t11 murdered him Feeling in the community ran high the indignation li indigna-tion against the slanderer and murderer f mur-derer being so intense that it was t 4 thought the fellow would beE Ii be-E lynched However the law wash II was-h permitted to take its course and its it-s ill is one of the most remarkable instances l in-stances of the miscarriage of just t tice in criminal jurisprudence that the jury acquitted the defendant A Popular feeling was so outraged by r the circumstance that the jurors 1 were pubicly hung in effigy as they might well have been in 2J TOp ria person Dukes left town t I t and indignation meetings wera held warning him not to return I However he did not heed the admonition ad-monition he went back to Union town and declared his intention to I remain there or lie in the cemetery The public wisely let him alone but young Nutt now comes to the I i 1 front as his fathers avenger and his sisters vindicator The law failed I 1 in purpose and duty and the son r was compelled to resort to the nigher law which is inherent in all I and which sGmetime must step into in-to fill the gap left in the statutes i tI j Happily the lads aim was correct 1 and his arm steady The work was 4 well done nnd the commendation I I 1 r I 1 E > 1 T and applause will be general where there are good men and virtuous women Should there ever occur in this country another DukesNutt affair it is hoped there will be another an-other Jim Nutt to follow the example set by the first |