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Show When the case came up before a referee, Dodge was impersonated by one Charles Her-bitch, Her-bitch, whom Lawyer Sweetser, who had served Dodge with the papers, mistook for Dodge. Consequent Con-sequent Sweetser's testimony was not accepted when Dodge swore he had never been served with the papers. The decree was set aside by Judge Clark. For this Hummel got fifteen thousand dollars dol-lars from "Captain Jim." But Charles W. Morse didn't rest easy. He said he loved his wife and keep her he would, and he set to work. In January, 19.04, the district dis-trict attorney procured an indictment against Hummel for perjury and subornation of perjury. Dodge fled, heading for Mexico. But he was arrested ar-rested at Houston, Tex. Then Hummel began to drain "Captain Jim's" purse to the extent of some seventy-five thousand dollars for money with which to fight the case. A chartered steamer to take Dodge to foreign parts was one of the expensed. ex-pensed. At the trial, "Captain Jim" has been the star witness, and District Attorney Jerome also got Dodge to make a full confession. In a way, the case has been devoid of those salacious sa-lacious bits of evidence so dear to a portion of the public. The great interest has been in watching a well known, clever and desperate lawyer fighting fight-ing to keep out of Sing Sing. Hummel, in the public mind, has always borne the glory of being a self-made man. His start from poverty, his endurance of the hardest kind of toil, and his never-ending persistance have really covered over undeniable faults even vices. 'it is a queer ending to a brilliant career. Abe Hummel had tripped before, but recovered himself. him-self. But there is no such sympathy for him now as for "Captain Jim," the "cruel uncle" of the story. Flaneur in the Argonaut. |