The Detroit times., 1910-02-21
10 GE OUTLINES
DR.. FR|TC us
DEFENSE
General Retaliation of Terminating
Evidence Promised-Denies Vic
tim Was in Physicians Office
Day She Disappeared.
First Witness Attacks Mrs. Messen-
gers Reputation Tor veracity, But
Van Zile Spells Effect

Or. George A. Fritch's defense 10 the
accusation that he caused the death oi
Mabel Millman by performing Grim
nal operation and threw her dismem
bered body into Ecorse creek TO con
cea! the crime.
AS Attorney Frank T. Lodge out
lined his case 10 the jury Saturday
morning, the doctor will not claim he
was not In his office at the line the
prosecution claims Mabel Millman met
her death on his operating table. lie
will admit that he was there and will
Try TO prove that the girl and Mrs
Messenger were not.
DR. Fritch will admit that he tried L.
reach Joe Leach by telephone Oh the
afternoon OF August 81. He will also
admit leaving his Office hurriedly about
4 30 o'clock on the afternoon OF
August ~ but will show both these
incidents TO have been perfectly limo
cent, Lodge promised.
The defense will attempt TO i'm
peach Mrs Messenger by showing that
the building was being newly painted
al the time OF her alleged visit, though
she made no mention of having seen
painters or paint signs on that occd-
sion
Court Warns Jurors.
Judge Phelan warned the jurors
Saturday noon TO refrain from talking
with any attaches OF the Hotel Bel
mont. where they are quartered. II
has come TO the courts attention that
some OF the Jurors have been in the
habit OF taking exercise on balcony
OF the hotel, apart from their asso
ciates.
II don't want any OF the jurors 10
place themselves in a position where
outside persons might have an oppol-
tunity 10 talk with them il they chose
TO take advantage of il" said the
Judge later Nothing like this has
been going on. but | simply want "a
guard against it by warning the jurors
in advance.
Hugh Jennings manager OF the
Tigers, was one Of the spectators Sat
urday He occupied a point of vantage
next TO Martha Henning
Chauffeur Joseph Leach was re-
called by the prosecution when the
Fritch case was resumed. Saturday
morning, to clean up one or two de.
tails OF his story. lie Was asked II
when he and DR. Fritch returned
from the latter's garage on Trumbull
ave. TO the doctors Office. II any OF
the bricks he had placed in the auto
at the garage had been taken out.
II did not see any taken out, he
replied.
Questioned on this point by Attor.
ney Lodge. Leach said he had not
seen the bricks after putting them in
the machine.
Did you run into a buggy while
driving your auto about year ago?
Yes, had q collision.
And didn't YOU have with you a
girl from the oxford hotel?'
Yes"
Joy ride, wasn't it?"
NO. we were on business.
WAS that the same machine you
had the night you and Or. Fritch
were together"
Yes"
While the examination was going
on Or. Fritch and Prosecutor Van
Zile became engaged In an earnest
discussion across the table over a set
OF plans showing the layout OF the
doctors Office, which the prosecutor
had prepared In their eSrnestness
they talked so loudly as TO interrupt
lodges questioning.
After a few more seemingly unim-
portant queries. Leach was allowed
to leave the stand
With the consent OF the defense,
the prosecutor then introduced the
plans. which Lodge acknowledged 10
be substantially correct, and they
were shown to the jury.
with this. the people rest, an
nounced the prosecutor.
Attorney Lodge asked the prosecu'
tor to recall Mrs. Messenger, for the
purpose. he said, OF asking about
some of her business relations In Bat
tie Creek. The prosecutor. however,
said that Mrs. Messenger was not
able to be present on account OF q
cold. and Lodge. ordered To proceed
outlined the defense to the jury.
Defense Outlines Vase.
I'm addition 10 the Inconsistencies
and contradictions which, we Claim
already exist III the prosecution $
dictions which Will prove that the
things the peoples Witnesses have
testified to do not 'jibe' with things
as they actually existed on Aug. -,
1909" began Mr.. Ledge.
we shall show you. in tho FIRST
place. thlt fact that should have
been noticed by witnesses who claim
to have been In Or. Fritch's office on
Aug. %. was not noticed by them. IL
will be shown that painters were N
work on that building at the time a. d
on the afternoon OF Aug. - the paint
ers were at work right over the
entrance. The building was wet with
paint AMI signs we're posted around
to- warn people. And any person 80
ing there must have noticed these
things.
we will show that when those
mysterious parcels were taken from
the doctors Office the vicinity was
almost "a light a. day; that on the
very BUILDING where DR. Fritch has
his Office is a bright Illuminated siGn
while the Edison Co. right across the
street has even a larger sign. Build
fngs all around there. we will show
were brilliantly Illuminated that
night The Cadillsc. close at hand
has its arches o. light, shedding then
radiance on Masnington-blvd. We
will show II was so light that a news
paper could be read i'm the street
We shall show that hundreds OF PEG
pie passed DR. F,.tchs Office thai
night and that. II Joe Leach had tod