Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — LIZZIE NUTT’S ASSERTION. [ARTICLE]

LIZZIE NUTT’S ASSERTION.

in speaking of Miss Lizzie’s connection with the affair. Mr. Voorheessaid: “MissN tthas lived since father’s death in the glare of light, and that glare has proven the charge to be false. It is easier to believe that Dukes, repulsed in his lust, tried to ruin the girl and her family, than to believe he succe ed e d and then wrote those letters. I can say on the authority of the girl, and on my own deductions, that the charges of Dukes were false. I believe her.” The Senator spoke one hour and forty minutes, and he was most attentively listened to. Mrs. N utt and daughter wept copiously. There were very few dry eyes in the house.— Several times the audience cheered.

Voorhees’ closing remarks were grand and eloquent.— Turning to the Jury, he said: “You will not send that poor woman home without her son. There can be no compromise. He shot him; shot him three times. Yet find him guilty, and there will be a wail go up that would drown the thunder of the Heavens. Erect a gallows to hang him, and the women of the country would rescue him from the men. There are some cases that try themselves. The officer of the Court of Fayette comes down here and lets on that he expects a conviction, “e expects nothing of the kind. No one expects it. All nature cries out against it. I would like to have you render a verdict in the face of all here? but at any event render a verdict to the effect that when Dukes fell, the act that caused him to fall was the result of air irresistable im pnlse.”

UUI .v° u over have another wife beside mother ? ” “ Xo, my bov • what possessed you to ask such a que t .' !. 10n ? ‘ Because I saw in the old fam*7 . . you married Anne Jonnrn in 1835, and that isn’t mother lor her name Was Sally Smith.” . A Cambripob youth wrote the follow- “•? autograph album : In the chain of friendship regard me its a missing link;” and after «i gu W lm luuQo !»‘e added underneath bv wav » pnx.aeupt: “But do not mistake£ie i.«>i i.'s., wm s missing one 1 ”