Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-10
HELD IN $4,000 BAIL
Remanded for Further Investigation
of Detroit Murder Case.
WOMAN HELD AS A WITNESS
Believed She May Know Something
Of Girls Whereabouts Preceding
Her Disappearance.

DETROIT, Mich, September 10.-Dr.
George A. Fritch, accused by the police
in the case of Maybelle Millburn. the
Ann Arbor girl whose hacked-up body
was found in Ecorse creek, has been
remanded under $4,000 ball. with two
Of the case.
DR.. Fritch was taken before Police
Justice Jeffries about noon. His attor-
ney, Frank 7. Lodge, objected to Judge
JefrleS' intimation that bail might be
fixed at $4,000 and suggested $1,000.
DR.. Fritch made brief statement to
the newspaper men, in which he said:
My arrest was a great surprise to
me. I do not know that I ever saw the
Millman girl. but I think she was in
my Office two weeks ago Thursday
night, in company with another girl.
Says Two Girls Called.
Several people were waiting, and when
their turn came I invited the two girls
to enter my private office Only one Of
them came in, and she asked If she might
make an appointment for an examination.
said that the present time was as good
as any, but she said she would not wait
then and would call again. We talked
for about three minutes. Nothing was
said about the nature of her case.
The following Monday her friend came
and asked If I had seen her. / replied
no. am not positive, but ! think it was
the Millman girl who came to see me.
The night of my arrest / told Capt.
tirely to my having been arrested in the
Presley case
When told that bricks similar to those
with which the body was weighted had
at DR.. Fritch's home. the doctor said that
undoubtedly cement bags might be found
there also.
DR.. Fritch was the only person un-
DER arrest up to noon. Reports that
a man had been arrested and was being
kept at the e-countVssjail~Glosely guarded
by Sheriff CASTOR and his deputies are
denied by the authorities.
Sheriff CASTOR has left the city. He
took a Michigan Central train this
morning westward bound and was be-
neved to have gone to Ann Arbor.
Woman Held as Witness.
The young woman who tainted last
night at the state fair grounds and
who was believed to be laboring under
excitement due to thinking about the
finding Of the body of Maybelle Mill
man IN EcOrSe creek, was Mrs. Alice
Reno. a clerk in the Hovey confection-
cry store on lower Woodward avenue
Mrs Reno was still being detained by
the police this morning as a witness
Mrs. Cora Nellis another clerk in the
Hovey store, and an old friend of May
belle Millman, had previously been ques-
toned by the police. Mrs. Nellis said to-
day in an interview with Detroit News
reporter that Maybelle Millman three
weeks ago had told her that she would
like to have a physician recommended for
a girl friend who worked in store in
Detroit. At this time DIR. Fritch's name
was given to the Millman girl by Mrs.
Nellis. The next time Miss Millman called
at the store Mrs. Nellis told her she
thought Mrs. Reno knew of a doctor
whose charges would be reasonable Mrs
Nellis said that Maybelle Millman had
lunch with her the day before the Ann
Arbor girls disappearance, but that the
question of a physician was not men,
toned at that time.
Mrs. Nellis was unable to remember
the name of any physician that had been
given to Maybelle Millman by Mrs. Reno.
The authorities today are continuing
search for evidence relating to the death
of Maybelle Millman. The discovery yes
terday of the missing portion of the body
resulted In complete verification of the
theory of the police that Miss Millman
met her death on surgeons table.