Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-02-29
SOON TO LEAVE PRISON.
Abe HummeI, Who Has Been at Black.
wells Island For Nearly a Year,
VIII Soon Be Free.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
who has been sojourning on Black
wells Island for nearly year as /;
result of the part he played in the
sensational Dodge-Morse divorce case
is about to emerge from his retreat {
free man. He has been an exemplary
prisoner during his stay on the island
and this has shortened his years sen
tence to ten months. His term will
therefore come to an end two weeks
hence
Various stories are current as to
Hummell's plans for the future His
family and friends have advised him
to go abroad and remain until the
events of the recent past have been
forgotten 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 nostrils, 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 as lawyer on account of
having been disbarred. Furthermore
the revelations in his own case and
also in the Thaw- case in which he
uroc ;pd;rooflxr insoIxaJ WOULD ,,,o1-o -
impossible for him to regain his for
mer standing in the profession, even if
the disbarment were removed. Conse-
Quently the shrewd little lawyer will
be forced to find new field in which
to exercise his undeniable talents It
is said that he intends to become a.
real estate broker and an operator
He is still possessed of considerable
fortune of his own. And many of his
friends and clients of former years
will find it to their interest to lend
him helping hand if he needs it.
Notwithstanding the report circulat-
ed some months ago that he was in a
dying condition Hummel will leave
Aprison 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 designations of the
Great White Way have done wonders |
for the little lawyer in restoring him |
to health. It is true that he has been |
lodged in the hospital and has enjoyed |
all the privileges and immunities of a |
hospital patient But he was never in
IN 80 y. in bis life than he is to-
hougn PICTURES nave appeared fnf
the sensational press showing Hum
mel In the stripes of a Blackwelrs
Island prisoner, no one of the island
has seen him in that garb. Under
some kind of arrangement with some
body the little lawyer has been al
lowed to keep on the garb of Broad.
way.
Another fiction is that he has been
employed in the bake shop of the pris-
IN or broken stone on the pile. But,
Is matter of fact, the hardest work
ne has done since he was sentenced,
s to play pinochle with some of his
elbow patients and to read the daily
papers, which he has received regular
Y from his relatives and friends.
Hummers most constant visitors II
ire his nephew, Able Kaffenberg, and
lis two sisters, one of whom, it is
aid, is at the prison hospital to see q
Ter brother as often as the prison
uies permit or as often as they can
'e stretched to permit. And it is 8
cry common talk among the other !,
prisoners that the rules are very elas-
ic where Hummel is concerned. y