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Show A DEAF MUTE LAWYER. William S. Abrama Will Look After Legal Rights of Fellowman. Now York. This city is soon to havo a deaf and dumb lawyer. This seemingly Incongruous person Is William Wil-liam S. Abrams, who is studying law In tho office of Gcorgo B. Hayes, at No. 31 Nassau street, and cxpocta to be admitted to tho bar In tho fall. His practlco will bo confined mainly to cases In which deaf and dumb peoplo nro concerned, nnd his work will necessarily nec-essarily bo almost entirely In tho office, of-fice, tho pleadings and motions being turned ovor to his condjutors. When ho does appear In court it will bo In tho capacity of interpreter, or, more properly speaking, thought read or. There uro many doaf mutes whoso kuowledgo of business Is limited limit-ed owing to their Infirmity nnd who lack tho power to properly express tholr ideas oven In tho sign language It often happens, in fact, that In tho Interpretation tho vory opposlto of their wishes Is oxprcBscd. This Mr. AbruniB purposes to correct by gottlng thoroughly In touch with tho mental undertunding of tho cllonts and giving proper expression to their Ideas. Lawyers Law-yers with praqtlco among deaf mutes find it comparatively easy to conduct cases for those who are educated, but almost a hopeless task to arrive at WILLIAM FABRA (The First Deaf Mute Lawyer In New York City.) any understanding with the illiterate excopt through one who Is himself acquainted ac-quainted with tho workings of tho mind of tho deaf muto. |