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Show -a- LAWYERS IN SING SING PRISON. One of Them is Preparing a Hriefon Behalf Be-half of Another Prisoner. Sing Sing has five lawyers among its tenants. ten-ants. They were all sent there recently, aud their connections with the outside world have not been broken off so completely as iiu the case of convicts who have served many years of a long term. One of these lawyer lias not only not cut off his connection with, the outside world, but he pends his spare ime in the prison in reading more law and n working at law papers. He does not gel fees for the services in money, but it is a. pleasure for him to work at his profession) rather than to sit around and think idly uur-ing uur-ing the moments when he is not doing tin tasks imposed upon him by the prison out cials. The New York Sun thinks highly ol the reputation for ability aud shrewdnesl that this lawyer has that not only has ho prepared his own case on appeal and pre. pared the cases of other prisoners, but law. yers in New York who know him from time to time ask him to get up hills of exceptions in cases on appeal for them. This interesting convict is Abraham Suy-dam. Suy-dam. He h serving a five-year sentence for graud larceny on July 12, 18S0. Hia experience shows some of the defects of the criminal laws of the state, though, as he said, it is not so much the depriving him of his liberty as that it grieves him as a law. yer to see anyone committed to Siug Sing with such a disregard of the niceties of the criminal law as was shown in his case. Although he was cotivleted in November, 188S, he was not sent to Sing Sing until May 19, 1801. The interval he spent in the Tombs and did a fairly large law business there, advising other prisoners and consulting con-sulting about their cases. In Sing Sing he is looked on as a great authority on criminal crimi-nal law, and he is prcpariug a brief for James E. Bedell, anolher lawyer, who is serving a sentence of twenty-five years for forgery, and is crushed by it, while Suydam is bright, chipper and intellectually active. Both he and Bedell are at woak on the books of the prison, the highest class of employment employ-ment there. They are well liked by the officials, as they cause no trouble. |