The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-12-15
CRIMINAL
LAWYER ON TRIAL
Abe HummeI Faces Charges Of
Conspiracy
ECHO OF MORSE CASE.
sELF-coNFEssED PERJURER IS
THE PRINCIPAL WITNESS
AGAINST GoTHAM'S CELE.
5RATED ATTORNEY.

able than anything ever told in fictioI
or even drama will be the story re
lated from the lips of witnesses a
the trial of LAWYER Abraham II. Hum
mel. growing out of the criminal pro
tceedings of the famous MorserDodge
marital tangle.
Lawyer Hummel is under indict
ment for conspiracy to deceive the
supreme court and for subornation OF
perjury, and is jointly charged with
Benjamin ,Steinhardt, member of the
firm of Howe and Hummel, and
Charles f. Dodge. Judge Rogers has
set Dec. Is as the day of trial and
District Attorney Jerome win make
every effort to go on with the hearing.
Dodge, Principal Witness.
Dodge, self-confessed perjurer, who
is in feeble health, is the principal
witness against Lawyer Hummel.
His death would end the prosecution
and add another complication TO the
tangle which for the last four years
has attracted International attention In
the civil and criminal courts in this
country.
Captain James T. Morse. millionaire,
Il Bath and Boston, uncle of Charles
w. Morse, will be the central figure
about which stories of love, hate,
bribery Of courts. perjury fugitives
from justice, threats of murder, at.
tempts at poisoning, wrecked homes
and broken hearts, will revolve.
1t was Captain Morse who laid bare
the intricacies in the plot which led
20 the enforced separation of Charles
w Morse, banker and ice magnate.
from his wife, who was the divorced
wife of Charles r. Dodge, IL was Cap
tain Mouse who alleges he employed
Lawyer Hummel to engineer the legal
proceedings to separate man and wife
On the ground that the divorce OBJ
tanned by Mrs. Dodge was based on
collusion and fraud. II was Captain
Morse who paid 100000 IN the suits
and in the efforts to prevent Dodge
being brought back here from Texas
after he had been indicted for per.
Jury.
The sudden appearance of Captain
Morse created a great shifting of
scenes in the district attorneys Office
and prevented grave miscarriage of
Justice. For nearly two years District
Attorney Jerome and his assistants,
Rand and Garvin. had been working
IN the theory that Charles w. Morse
was the mysterious person, whose
money was poured out without stint
% invoke the courts TO get rid of his
wife in order that he might marry
Mrs. Catherine Gelsehenen, the widow
If an old friend, William Gelshenen,
Who had left an estate of about So
100000
Based upon the testimony given be.
ore the grand jury upon the original
heory that Charles w. Morse was
back of the scheme. Lawyer HummeI.
Steinhardt former Justice Edgar l..
Fursman, Charles F. Dodge and Ed
ward Bracken were indicted for con
spiracy and Hummel. Steinhardt and
Dodge for subornation of perjury.
Hummel Begins Fight.
Lawyer Hummel started long fight
o have the indictment dismissed, and
used all the technical objections in |
aw as dilatory pleas.
While motions were pending in. the
appellate division, Mr.. Jerome as
'umed a sudden change of front. He
TO have the indictment dis
missed Mr.. Jerome had heard what
he considers are the real facts and lost
10 time in putting Captain Morse be-
ore the grand jury and the indict. |
nent of Hummel, Steinhardt and
Dodge followed.
Captain Morse put himself on record I
rs the chief conspirator aud con-
Dletely absolved his nephew. Charles |
". Morse, from all blame
Captain Morse will tell on the wit. |
less stand finally that he conceived a |
notion that the must be something |
wrong in the life of a woman who
could practically separate a father
rom his children and he determined |
o find out by a personal investiga- |
ion.
He drew $4,000 from a bank in Boz
on. He had read of the firm OF Howe |
Hummel in the newspapers as ex
,erts in domestic Investigations and !
litigation. and he landed in Lawyer |
Iummsl's office. according to Captain
dorseis confession. TO put down ten
Il 900 bills On the desk as a retainer. |
,aptain Morse told his story and said
{ It we're possible he would Ike to |
ave Mr. and Mrs. Morse separate 50 |
hat hic nephew might again be re
tored TO his children.
This was the start Of the four years
'attle and The greatest matrimonial
'uzzie of the age. Lawyer Hummel. |
,aptain Morse. alleges. had fun |