The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-02
HOMMEL WILL
SOON Be FREE.
CANNOT RETURi: 70 HIS LAW
PRACTICE HAVING BEEN
DIsBARRED.
EXEMPLARY PRISONER
During His Sojourn On BackweII's
Island AS Result Of Part He
Played in Dodge-Morse
Divorce Case.

New York, March 1.-Abe Hummel
who has been soJournlng on Black
wells Island for seariy a year as {
result of the part he played In tht
sensational Dodge Morse divorce case
its about to emerge from his retreat {
free man. He has been an exemplar,
prisoner during his stay on the island
and this has shortened his years
sentence to ten months. His term
will therefore come to an end two
weeks hence.
Various stories are current as t.
Hrmmcl's plans for the future His
family and friends have advised him
to go abroad and remain until the
events of the reetn past have been for.
gotten in measure by the public
But Hummel is man who has lived
on publicity ever since he landed in
New York from his native Boston
years ago. Publicity is as breath to
his nostriIs, and it is not likely that
he will be content to remain very
long out of the limelight,
He will not be able to resume his
practice of law on account of having
been disbarred, Furthermore the
revelations In his o-n case and also
In the Thaw case in which he was In,
directly involved would make 1t i'm
possible for him to regain his former
standing in the profession, even i'll
the disbarment were removed. Con
seuuently the shrewd little lawyer
will be forced to find new field in
which to exercise 1lis undenfabfe tail
ents II Is said that he intends to be
come a real estate broker and an
operator. He is still possessed of a
considerable fortune of his own. And
many of his friends and clients of for,
mer years will doubtless find 1t to
their interest to lend him a helping
hand II he needs 1t.
Notwithstanding the report circu
lated some months ago that he was In |
a dying condition Hummel will leave
preson in better health than he has |
been for years. The fresh air of his |
island retreat, the wholesome food
and, above ALL the removal from the
pleasures and dissfpatIons Of the
Great White Way have done wonders
fGr the little lawyer IN restoring him
10 health. 1t is true that he has been
odged in the hospital and has en-.
oyed all the privileges and immuni-
les of hospital patient. But he was
ever in better health in his, life than
le is today.
Although pictures have appeared in
he sensational press showing Hum
mel In the stripe or Blackwell's
sland prisoner, no one on te island
las seen him in that garb, Under
ome kind of arrangement with some
'cdy the title lawyer has been allowed
o keep on the garb of Broadway.
Another fiction Is that he has been
Employed in the bake shop of the
rison or broken Stone on the pile ,
,ut, as a matter of fact. the hardest !
york he he's done since he was I
is TO play pinochlc with
ONE of his fellow patients and to |
cad the daily papers, which he has
eceived regularly from his relatives
nd friends.
Hummels most constant visitors :
re his nephew. Able Kaffenberg, and
is two sisters, one OF whom, 1t Is
aid, is at the prison hospital to see
er brother as often as the prison
lies permit or as often as they can
2 stretched to permit. And 1t is {
,mmon talk among the other prison n
RS that the rules are very elastic n
here Hummel Is concerned. h