Bisbee daily review., 1909-12-14
Stands Accused of Killing MaybelIe William While Performing an Opera
 ton Last Summer
DISCOVERY OF BODY
 IN CREEK BRINGS ARREST
Later Developments FaSten Suspicion Firmly On
 the Physician

OEl tNOiA, AlCus DtC. io---fNn NEhi4i- inaI trial in years hs5 stirred De. troit to such high pitch of interest as is manifested at TTsssnt in the case of pr. George A. Eritch, who faces a charge of manslausnsoc in connection with the death of Miss Maybelle Millman, the Ann Arbor girl whose body was fshed from Ecorse creek last October. The prosecuting attorney hopes to have the trial oi Dr. Fitch concluded before the end of this week.
 Public interest in the case is due largely to the fact that crimes of a character of which Dr. Fritch is ac- cused have been unusually numerous in DetrO-t of late years and in prac- tically none of the cases has It been possible to secure a conviction. Dr. Fritch. according to the allegations of the police has long been 3 fore most disciple of a disreptuable class of phys.c clans who make criminal oper- ations their speciality. In the present case the evidence against him appears to be incontroyertible.
 On the morning of September z last the body of the Millman girl was found sewed in a sack floating in Ecorse creek. The following day the head of the victim was found about ten yards up stream from the place where the body had been found. The head WAS sewed in the same kind ot a burlap bag as the one containing the trunk. Sveral da 3 elapsed De fore the remains were finally idenu- fled bv Miss Martha H ming as those of her former schooln .te and chum, MavbeIIe Millman of Am ArDcr. Tne scene of the investigation was then shifted from Detroit to the university city where the Millman girl lived win her widowed mother. -. |,
 Phe police found that on August l4 the girl left her home, teliine n9r pnother that sne was coming to De' troit fo visit her former schoolmate' Misc Henplng. The latter, when questioned by the police admitted fhat she knew Miss Millman haa wished to undergo an illegal opera. SSon and had mentioned the name 0i DF. Fritch. .,
 The physician was well known U the police by reason of his past eA- experiences. In 1907 he had been s- rested in connection with the death CT Miss Edith Presley. proofreader TOT the state senate. When the prosecu ton of a member of the state leglsla' ture failed for lack of evidence the doctor was released.
 The Millman case promised for a while to take the same turn. as the evidence against Dr. Fritch was wh0L Iy of a circumstantial character. He was strongly suspected of having been responsible for the girls death but evidence was lacking. As con sequence he was released on bond within a week after his arrest. Then came a development of a startling nature. which, according to the DO lice. supplied the missing link in the evidence against the suspected phy sician ...
 .Iosenh w Leach. a chaffeur, was taken into custody and according to his alleged confession he was the man who assisted DT. Fritch in coE- xeying the remains of the dead sifi from the phys. clans office to the spoS where they were subsequently Gls covered. In a signed EssssSs-soG ne declared that Fritch e ls1 hIla to hls office about g o'clock la5 night The Millman girl disappear e2 8Ea rsiated fn detail ho whe wa sshown three sacks and asked to in sicats q place where there was a deeL sS-S c water into which they might be thrown with no danger of their being found.
 Dr. Fritch, according to Leach's con fession. fearing that the contents o the bags might permit them to floa' and so be discovered, went to hl: home and obtained an armful o bricks, which he thrust into te bags to their capacity. The bricks were found to contain the same manufac furer's marks as other bricks tna were found on Dr. Pretch's premises when he was arrested.
 Based on the evidence at hand th5 poIice formed the theory that Dr Fritch had performed an illegal oper ation upon the girl and that 1t ha, proved fatal, either as its direct ei feet or through the administration O an anesthetic. Finding himself II this predicament, the physician couC see but one safe course. That was SC creting the body in manner tha could preclude its discovery
 Fearing that a charge of murdai would not stand the legal onslaugaa which the accused physicians mean; and influence insure, the prosecutor !. undertaking a conv ction on charG of manslaughter. In this state th' foax mum penalty for mauslaughter h fifteen years penal servitude.