LAWYER AS PRISON BAKER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 11 July 1907, Page 4

LAWYER AS PRISON BAKER.

HOW ABE HUMMEL EVADED THE PHOTOGRAPHERS.

Xew York, May; 20.

The scenes which marked the formal coramital of Alir.ih.im Hummel, the disbarred lawyer, to prison today to serve a twelve month*' sentence, was more worthy of a"farce-comedy than the surrender of a convict to the authorities. Hummel was convirted in December. \!MS. of c>n-|iir:uy in the notorious Dodge-Morse case, and was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and £IOO fine. .\t ten o'clock this morning a crowd collected in front of Hunimel's residence in anticipation of the arrival of the sheriff with the mmmital papers. A procession of calis and motor car* containing photographer* aud others extended several hundred yards down the street, and twenty cameras were levelled ft the front door. At 10.30 a motor car dashed up to the Hummel residence, and Mr Kaffenhurgh. Hunimel's nephew and former partner, who is also a disbarred lawyer, entered the car. which immediately drove off again.

Half Ihe spectators and nearly all the photographers chased utter the motor, tt was driven round the block at breakneck speed, and stopped in front of the house again.

Before the breathless pursuers realised what was happening Hummel ran out of the kitchen door and up the area steps, holding a large handkerchief in front of his face. Kaffenburgh clutched him by the collar and dragged him iuto the motor car. Hummel fell in a heap on the floor, and the car drove on" towards Central Park at the rale of thirty miles an hour.

Half an hour, after Hummers flight the sheriff took the committal papers from the district attorney's office, and drone away in a cab. Hume! was next heard of at 4 p.m.. when, in tlie custody of the sheriff, he was ferried across to Blackwell's Island.

On arrival at the prison he was exam ined in the ttati-.il way, dressed in the ■triped garb of a convict, and assigned t«i light work in the prison bakery.