The Detroit times., 1909-02-27
|REHEARsEO FALSE
STORY TO TELL
DETECTIVES
WOMAN SAYS "FRAME-UP" ON
DAUGHTERS DEATH WAS "DR."
LANpAu's woRk-TEsTlMoNY
AGAINST ACCUSED is STRONG.

This is terrible affair. Now we
will Lave TO save our own skins II
We can
There words were credited to DIR
Eliza Landau by Mrs. Mary Durance,
OF London. Ont. when she gave her
testimony as the states first and most
important witness in the doctors
trial OH charge OF manslaughter be-
fore Judge Phelan and jury. Friday
morning. DIR" Landau is charged
with having caused the death OF EFT
tie Sauler. the 17-year-old daughter %
Mrs. DURANGO, by means of criminal
operation about month ago.
Mrs. Durance. In her testimony Fri
day, went more into detail in telling
OF Mrs. Landau's alleged attempt to
frame up a story about the girls death
than In her police court examination.
and her recital was highly interesting.
With blunt frankness she told how
she and the Landau woman had re-
hearsed over aud over the story they
wore to tell the authorities. and OF
the difficulty she experienced IN com.
hitting Ii TO memory.
II told the doctor it would be better
to tell the TRUTH" she continued.
They'll find it out anyway says.
No. they won't says she. If you
keep to your story aud keep to mine
they will never suspect anything
"But still had my doubts about II.
There were the railroad tickets /
bought for myself and the girl. and
the kilograms that had passed between
Us, aud told her those things would
give us away NO. she says, Won
must burn everything Instead | sew
ed che tickets in my dress and later
gave them to the detectives, after
decided to tell the truth"
The tickets and kilograms were in
PRODUCED In evidence by Prosecutor
Van Zile and were identified by the
Witness.
~ told Mrs. Landau didn't think II
was right TO deceive the authorities
that way, and | didn't think | could
tell the story over just as We had nix
ed X up, but she said TO me. We've
got to save our own skins, so
finally agreed to tell it. They may lei
you take the body home. and you may
have 70 go in the sweat-box, the doc
tor said. ] didn't know just what she
meant by the 'sweat-I.x' then, but
found out later
The story they had agreed to tell
.nceording 10 the witness, was 10 the
effect that she and the girl had come
10 Detroit on Monday Jan. 25, and
had engaged room with Mrs. Landau
at No. l24 Howard-st. for week. The
girl was supposed to have been seized
with a violent attack OF vomiting the
same afternoon. dying before the ar
rival of q physician. Mrs. DURANGO
was to say that she had asked DR..
landau to come to the room TO look
At the girl. but the latter was not sup
'fA3sed 10 have given her any treat
Bment
II started to tell that story" testi.
y7ed Mrs. Durance, "but when ! saw
that the detectives didn't believe N
1 decided to tell the whole truth and
u did, just as I am doing now
AS a matter OF fact, it appeared
from the woman's testimony. that
Mrs. Durance and her daughter came
TO Detroit on Saturday. Jan. %. In
response to a letter from DIR" Lar
dau. OF whom they learned through an
advertisement In the Detroit Free
Press The operation. Mrs. Durance
said. was performed by Mrs. Landau
soon after their arrival and she was
present In the room at the beginning
OF 1t. Her testimony on this point was
considerably stronger than the police
court examination and was most dam
aging to the defendant.
The price agreed upon for the oper-
alton was $780,, she said Mrs. Dur
ance did not have that much money
with her and Or" Landau hesitated
about treating the girl until she was
sure of the price. witness averred.
"She said she didn't like to trust me,
because she had been fooled SO many
lines" the witness went on. IL told
her | would send her the balance rs
soon as / got home. and finally she
said, We'll, give me what money you
have got and I'll treat the girl |
then paid her s27 keeping only some
.4mall change for myself Then We
went upstairs. the girl and and the
doctor. | saw her mix something up
1n glass. Then left the room.
Before that j asked the doctor II
there was any danger. and IL she ever
}ost any cases. She told me there was
no danger whatever and that she had
never lost any cases.
"Afterwards, helped put my girl TO
bed and the doctor warmed a stove
lid and put it ON Elite. When | left
TO 20 back home she told me she
thought Elite would get along we'll.
II don't worry much about my patients
~ am a DOCTOR she said.'
When Mrs. Durance came back TO
Detroit three days later she found her
daughter dead.
Mrs. Durance was still on direct ex-
animation when court adjourned at
noon.