The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-15


on that He drew from the witness,
the admission thaS anestneics would
leave their mark on the heart and
lungs, and that no such evidences
were found ia Mabel Millman's body,
Then he asked Dr. Grimes for his
real opinion as TO the cause or the
girls death. and the doctor answered ?
In my opinion she died from an5sthc.
tics.
Then Lodge rested his examination.
The whole texture OF damning state.
ments piled up by the prosecution,
from the same witness, during the
morning, had washed away, under
closs-examination like blue sky.
The Fritch defense certainly had
It's day in court Monday afternoon.
That Mabel Millman died in the
performance OF a criminal operation
upon her was the unequiyocal state.
ment OF Dr. w. S. Grimes, a former
county physician on the witness
stand IN the Fritch manslaughter trial
Monday morning, IN answer 10 hypO
thctlcal questions put By the prose.
cution and allowed by Judge Phelan
against the vigorous objections OF the
defense. Thus the issue is now
squarely drawn between the people
and Dr. George A. Fritch.
Up 20 this time there had been con
siderable speculation AS TO whether
the prosecution would attempt to
show that an operation had been per
formed or merely attempted At one
time II was regarded as doubtful
whether any necessity existed for an
operation and the question OF the
doctors legal liability under such cir.
cumstances was widely discussed.
Now, however. the prosecution come $
out fiat-fCotedly and takes the ground
that Il condition did exist which made
an operation desirable that an oper.
alton was performed and that the un-
fortunate girl died in the performance
of IT,
Though Dr Grimes testimony from
the layman's standpoint seemed
damaging 10 the defense. Attorney
Lodge, counsel for the accused. APP
pcared 20 be quite elated over II.
If there was no error in the case
before there is now" he said. when
court adjourned for the noon recess
The hypothetical questions asked by
the prosecutor were wholly incOmpet-
ent inasmuch as they were based. I'm
the first place, on double hearsay
testimony.-th is. so-and-so told
somebody else. etc.-and. moreover
they call on the witness to invade the
province OF the jury and say what this
girl died from A conviction now will
never stand in the world"
h.. v,,aIfnal 4,
~ consume the entire time OF the
court, during the afternoon and may
extend into Tuesday Those yet TO be
sworn are Dr. w J. Stapleton, Jr..
another eX-county physician; Dr.
Thaddeus Walker and County Chemist
John f. Clark The testimony OF Drs
Clark and Walker will be mighty i'm
portant, having to 40 with the results
OF miscroscopical examinations OF the
body OF Mabel Millman.
The first witness OF the morning
was John Teifer. OF Trenton, who was
recalled 10 testify more specifically
as 10 the spot where the third sack
was found on Crosse lie. Following
him. Marshall John Winnie OF Tren-
ton was recalled. The purpose Of
this testimony was 10 establish the
fact that the sack could have been
carried to the spot where 1t was found,
by the current
Defense Gets Little Comfort.
The evident purpose OF the defcns"
on cross-examination was TO show, II
possible. that, from the position N
which the sack lay when found, there
we're grounds for believing that it had
been carried there Chauffeur Joe
Leach is expected TO swear that all
three sacks were thrown into Ecors2
creek at the bridge over the river
road and II the defense can shoy
that IL was impossible for the sack
to have worked its way TO Crosse Re
down the river il would tend TO i'm
leach the chauffeur's story How.
ever. Attorney Lodge got very little
comfort ont OF the testimony of Teller
and Winnie.
Former County Physician Grimes
was the first OF the medical witnesses
to take the stanc With Dr. Staple.
ton he performed the postmortem
examination oil Mabel Millmau's
body. anl he went into detail as 20
Just what was done The examination
OF the torso, which was found I'm the
first sack. was in progress, he said
when the second sack. containing the
head. arms, lair. barrette and the
legs from the knees down, was brought
in The girls fingers we're clenched.
he testified. The hair found in the
second sack was false, In the doctors
opinion. and there was a bald spof
or the girls heal.
The knots with which the bags We're
tied were again introduced and were
identified by Or Grimes
What kind Of knots are they"
asked Prosecutor Van Zile.
Tied With Surgeons Knot.
Surgeons knots was the answer.
How does that kind of a knot dit
fer from an ordinary lnot?'
THE first tie IS double
The witness testified that the arms
had been cleanly cut and disarticu.
lated at the shoulder that is, the ball
had been torn out OF the socket. The
knees hal been sawed through.
Would you say this work had be'n
done by instruments such as are found
only i'm physicians Office
Or. Grimes did not answer the ques
ton directly. but repeated what he
had already told OF the condition W
which he found the various parts. Tho
inference was that the work had been
done b. a physician. I'm his opinion.
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