The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-09
Detroit Physician Is Held on
 Very Serious Charge
THE OFFICIALS ARE RET|CENT
Girl Friend of Dead Girl is Heiu as Witness, While the Sheriff Proceeds With the Case
 Against the Doctor.

Detroit. September S.-Dr. George A. Fritch. well-known practitioner of this city. was placed under arrest tonight at police headquarters on suspicion in con- nection with the death of Miss Maybelle Millman of Ann Arbor. whose dismem- bered body was found Monday and Tues day. sunk in two sacks in Bcorse creek in the western suburbs of this city.
 Miss Martha Henning, intimate friend of the dead girl. was also taken into ous- tody as a witness.
 Dr. Fritch is registered as follows on the blotter at the Central police sta- tion:
 George A. Fritch. Offense charged, sus- picion of murder; occupation, physician; age, 42; married; color. white; residence, 665 Trumbull avenue; father and mother both born in Canada. Arresting officers, Detectives Parker and Allen"
 Dr. Fritch had in his pockets s82 in money.
 The arrest of pr. Fritch followed the hurried return of Sheriff Gaston from Ann Arbor, where he had spent most of the day looking up clews in the Millman case.
 Scene Changes.
 So unexpectedly did the scene of inves- tigation shift to Detroit that the Wayne county sherifns arrival here was almost simultaneous with the arrival at the Ann Arbor postoffice of a Washington tele- gram, authorizing Postmaster Prettyman to submit the records of the money order and registered letter departments to the inspection of MT. Gaston. All day this authorization had been anxiously awaited by the officials gathered at Ann Arbor, in the hope that the postonice records would show who had been the sender of a registered letter containing remit tance of money which Miss Millman re- ceived at hey hume just before leaving on her iIl-starrsd trip to Detroit three weeks ago. Whether the investigation of the Ann Arbor postoffice records Is to be pursued further tomorrow could not be learned tonight.
 Extraordinary efforts to maintain the greatest secrecy were made when Sherif Gaston was summoned from Ann Arpor this evening. But when the county execu- tive entered the private office of Chief of Detectives Mcconnell his arrivei in De- troit had been noticed and he was com- pelled to run the gauntlet Of a score or newspaper men, all hurling questions at him as to the next turn in the lnVestlsa- ton.
 Although Miss Martha Henning was seen to enter the conference In Chief Mc- Donnell's room, Sheriff Gaston would not even admit that she has returned to the city. Detectives Parker and Allen ap- peared, escorting a short thin man with a sandy mustache, who had not hitherto appeared in the investigation. He proved to be Dr. Fritch.
 Questioned Very Fully. Miss Henning and pr. Fritch both re- mained in the detective's office for about half an hour and then the doctor was taken into a separate room. while the girl was subjected to further questioning Ill the absence of the physician After an hours time Miss Henning was taken upstairs to the matron's room for the night and Dr. Fritch was led to the cell block in the basement. Chief of De- tectives Mcdonnell then said:
 i've have locked up Dr. George A. Fritch on suspicion of numbering May belle Millman. We have worked on the case all day and would not arrest him tonight unless we had sufficient evidence to Justify our action"
 pr. Fritch was previously arrested Tn connection with the mysterious deatn or Miss Edith Presley, proofreader Tor tne state senate, who died under suspicious circumstances in Detroit In April. lWi. Two criminal prosecutions were started after the Presley tragady and when tho case against memberNp frhe lower house of the legislature was thrown out of court for lack of sufficient evidence, the case against Dr. Fritch, which depended much upon obtaining conviction Of tho legislator, was nolle pressed.