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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-26

NO. but who else would have
them"
Because they're gone YOU think tn
police have. them?'
Yes"
isn't II a little strange that the
police haven't produced them here, II
they got them?"
We'll. don't know"
I'm tell you right here that haven
got them.
The books" proved To be a book,
when the prosecutor went into details.
II was the journal In which he kept
the record OF his general practice,
This ended the ordeal for Fritch.
and ne left the stand. Attorney Lodge
called his law partner. William X.
Brown. to the stand. 10 testify that
the police had refused TO let him see
the doctor on Sept .. the day after
his first arrest
The court did not think this ma
terial and checked the examination.
we rest" announced Lodge.
The defense. at the prosecutors re
quest produced Mrs. Lucy Albrechi
one OF the witnesses sworn Friday.
for further cross-eNamination.
Talked About the Case.
Mrs. Albrecht admitted knowing
Mrs. Eva Churchill and Mrs. Helen
Curtis and that she had talked with
them about the case "a little" She
admitted, too. that Or. Fritch had
sent for her and had asked her II she
remembered being In his Office Aug
%.
Didn't YOU tell him you didn't know
whether it was the eth or not?
asked the prosecutor
oh. no.
You said DR. Fritch had been your
family physician for several years?
Yes, sir
Have you been attended by any
other physician within the past few
montns?"
Yes, sir. | was attended by DR.
Harper"
What did he do for YOU"
II had slight operation.
Did you not tell Mrs Churchill
that Fritch called you up and you
Went down To his Office, and that he
wanted you 10 testify
Il might have"
And didn't YOU tell her you told
the doctor you weren't sure of the
date?"
NO"
Didn't you tell her you would dc
anything for Or. Fritch. as he had
once done a job for you?'
No. indeed"
Did you not tell her that DR. Har
per was treating you because DR.
Fritch did n bungling job and you had
10 get DR. Harper TO finish ii up?'
No. sir"
Didn't you tell Mrs. Curtis the
same things"
No. sir
And didn't Mrs Curtis advise you
not TO testify"
No, sir.
No amount OF questioning could
force Mrs. Albrecht to admit that DR.
Fritch had operated on her and had
bungled the Job She left the stand
highly indignant.
Mrs. Ida PutZig. No. 80 Roosevelt
ave. was next recalled by the prose
cutor for further cross-examination.
She first became acquainted with DR..
Fritch q little over four years ago,
she said She was the witness who
testified that she was the last person
in Dr. Frtch's office the night OF Aug
-. She left at $50 and he went out
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there was nothing new in the doc
tors story. II was all too familiar
~ The doctors hand went mp prompt.
~ as he rose To he fun height OF his
diminutive stature 10 be sworn. and
IL never wayered a particle as Clerk
Barlow hurried through the formali-
ties OF the oath.
You do solemnly swear'-the
clerk was saying. The doughty little
doctor looked him squarely in the
face.
TO tell the truth. the whole truth
and nothing but the truth Barlow
ratified on.
Il do" came the words, clearly and
distinctly. from the witness stand
The doctor slipped easily into the
chair, threw one leg up oyer the
other. folded his hands I'm his lap and
settled back to await his counselor S
first question. II was the beginning
of the end of the Fritch manslaughter
trial.
In answer TO Attorney Lodges
preliminary questions. the doctor sand
he was ~ years old that he was born
in Ontario and told briefly OF his
preparation for the medical profess
sion. He had started practice in De-
troit seven years ago. 1902. 10 be more
exact his first Office being located at
No III Trumbull-ave., where he also
had his home. Though In general
practice. he had devoted his attention
more particularly TO women's com
plants the past two years.
Tells of Mabeis Visit.
Getting down to the case, Dr. tritcn
told OF the visit OF a girl he 'presum
ed TO be Mabel Millman" and her
friend. Martha Henning, to his office
on the evening of Aug 20. The for
mer wanted to make an appointment
for an examination, not being prepar'
ed Tor il then, and arranged TO come
the next evening. That was the lag
he saw o. her. however, for she never
came back. No mention was made OF
an operation, ne declared. The CIR
did not even intimate she was IN
trouble.
Asked what his practice was in ad
hitting patients into his inner office
the doctor said he made IL a rule
never TO mention names in addressing
patients.
Some patients are timid about
that" he explained
Now about this Mrs. Messenger
who claims she was in your Office
Lodge continued.
A smile lit up the little doctor {
face and he leaned far forward in his
chair as he said with great earnest
ness, emphasizing his words with up
lifted index finger and appropriate
gestures:
That woman was never in my Of
fee in this world"
Then he smiled again and resumed
his favorite position.
Il want TO tell you another thing.
he went on, once more bringing the
uplifted finger into effective play
"The second week the jury was beins
selected, two ladies came into the
hallway that leads to my office. Mrs
Messenger was one of them. And, dc
you know. that woman had the gal
TO peek through my door. She got hei
head in about that far indicating a
space of about Is inches) and she
described on the stand here every
thing she could see from that posi-
ton"
Here the doctor bristled up and as
sumed an air of great Indignation
His naturally forid countenance
changed TO a crimson hue and there
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DR.. FR|TCH TRIAL
,cos,inued from Page One,

Il do not
Don't YOU know that she was taken
10 Grace hospitai a. bee cared Tor and
afterwards transferred 10 Harper.
Il do not
SO Mabel Millman came 10 YOU and
asked for an examination?
She asked TO make an appointment,
for an examination"
Did she make an appointment
Yes"
For what time"
No particular time. told her my
Office hours were from 10 T."
Did you have an attendant
No. not az that time
Isn't your business such that you
Prefer 10 be alone
No. sir
Have YOU anyone employed in you
Office now 30
Yes"
who Is She"
Mrs shannon
Was she one OF your witnesses
hefe2'
Yes
How long has she been there"
Since the trial started
DO YOU know Mrs. Patterson GA
Elmwood ave-"
Yes
Does sine keen place where girls
gre sometimes taken care OFF,
Not that know of.
Have YOU not sent patients u
herr"
No sir.
Didn't YOU send a Miss Woods to
her?
No"
That's all, announced the prose
Gator. rather Unexpectedly.
Attorney Lodge then took up the re-
direct examination and reverted ia
iritCh's first arrest
Were you permitted 10 see your at
turney right away after you arrest
No"
Frtch's Books Disappeared.
In his cross-examiHation Fritch had
referred to his books as having dis
aDpeared Lodge vent into this more
"a detail Or Fritch said he had firsF
missed his books about IA month afier
~ second arrest
Fritch said he was present when
Leach was being questioned by the
police and that Capt Mcdonnell ana
others corrected Leach on several
points. Brief reference was made To
the Presley case the object being 10
show that the case against Fritch was
dismissed after the Charles +. Ward
Trial had failed
The prosecutor, on re-crOss. again
referred to Frtchs claim that Van
Iile had refused to let him see his
attorney He forced Fritch TO admit
that Van Zile had not said SO in words.
but that the latter had turned TO Capt.
Mcdonnell who said
You can see your attorney after
while"
Then when YOU said before that !
told You that You could not see your
attorney that wasn't true?"
We'll. ! suppose not just the way
said it,
Now about those books Do you
know that the prosecutor or anyone
connected with that Office has got
those books
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ton with DR.. Fritch that eveninIk
When Attorney Lodge repeated 10 the
Jury, In stent0rlan tones. t.athrop ~
mumbled answers. the gentleman iron
DGreenheld blHshed like a school b0y<<|
Besides his kidney trouble. John nn1
good reason 10 remember Aug. 81 H9=
fell on hay rack and ran pitchfork
into MS foot. He went to Dr. fritch'o
Office first. o. o o'clock. and was told
TO return at s for a prescription. From
until he waited with the crowo%
IN the reception room, and then Dr.
Fritch told him he would meet Latl1~I
rop I'm Kinsels drug store at $3.50 and
buy him "A porous plaster. This the
doctor did Lathrop said, but left him
! Immediately afterward, and Joined o.
man at the cigar case. while Lathropf
went home.
Then came Michael Wiese. butcher<
at No 500 Gratiot-ave., who said that
/ he was the man al the cigar casa
Wiese said that he and DIR. Fritch had
cigars together. Wiese had left h1o Z
home at $3.50 that night, TO catch ~
III o'clock Wabash train to Chicago,
lie had planned. for a week, on going
10 Chicago 10 get $3.50, due him on 81
note. but he had never thought "
learn when the train left. He knew
II was night train" and felt that
that was close enough. Arrived at
the depot at 3 o'clock. he was told
that the train didn't leave until IL
and decided TO walk through the down
town district TO kill time" He WAN
dered over TO Kinsels drug store. and
met DR.. Fritch at the cigar case. He
had known Fritch for a year. Wiese
told the doctor about the Chicago trip
and its object and happened TO ask
the doctor whether he could spare
SIS or 800 until Wiese got the Chi
cago money Sure. Fritch could. So
Wiese abandoned all ideas OF the CHI
cago trip then and there. and he and
pr Fritch went over 10 the Hotel
Richter and drank beer until 1880
O'Clock. when they both went home.
Didn't Get the Money.
Wiese said. under cross-examina-
ton, that he had TO have the money
with which to go into business for
himself He didn't get the money
from Fritch that night. or any other
time. When he called at Fritch's Of
fee for the money, Sept. l5--Wiese's
birthday-Dr. Fritch said he couldn't
spare It, He was In trouble. and had
paid out every dollar he could
spare" the witness said.
Did he pay YOU any OF it?" asked
the prosecutor. guiltlessly.
NO" said the witness, with equal
innocence.
Wiese said that after all his prepar-
ations for his Chicago trip. and his
loan overtures 10 Dr. Fritch, he didn't
get the desired money until this
month. when he received 1t from Chi
cago.
Miss Agnes Rodger, sister of Mrs.
Fritch, and a resident OF the Fritch
home was the next witness, and
swore that she and Mrs. Fritch rode
on Belle Isle boat on the night OF
Aug. %, reached home at 1890. and
that the doctor came home 10 min
utes later. They prepared lunch,
ate IL. and went to bed.
Mrs. Fritch, a large woman, seemed
like n person in trance as she took
the witness stand to give exactly the
same testimony as her sister. Her
lips were tightly compressed, her
eyes had an unseeing look. and she
was pale and perceptibly agitated-
, Neither Mrs. Fritch nor her sister
were cross-questioned.
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with her. She admitted she had talked
with Or. Fritch about the case.
"DoSou know Mrs. Cunningham
Il know her slightly"
Have you talked with her about
the FTitch case?"
Il told her didn't know very much
about it,"
Did YOU talk with her about ger.
ting any money from DR. Fritch?"
"Oh. mo, indeed not.
Did YOU tell Mrs. Cunningham that
you had the nerve 10 sit right on the
operating table where the Millman sirl
Was cut up
Il did not. ="
"Didn't you tell her you were going
to get $40 from Dr. Fritch and that
you had already got 1882"
Denies Getting Money.
What? ! should say ! didn't"
Didn't YOU tell her you would swear
the court room blue 10 clear DR..
Frtch?"
Most decidedly not"
Did you toll Mrs. Cunningham you
went down To Fritch's Office TO look
the Offices over so YOU could tell any
one about them If you were asked? -
II did not"
Did Or. Fritch give YOU a receipt
dated back to Aug. q. and did you
so tell Mrs. Cunningham?
Il certainly did not. never told
Mrs Cunningham anything. I'm not
a friend OF hers and she's not "A friend
OF mine"
Cool On Direct Examination
With much the same all one would
expect him to assume If he were chat
ting with patient in the privacy ut
his own Office. Or. George A. Fritch
sat in the witness chair in Judge
Phelan's courtroom. Friday afternoon.
facing a crowd that filled every avail
able inch of space, and without ever
batting an eyelash," coolly informed
the jury that he was in no way re.
sponsible for the death OF Mabel Mill
man and the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF her
body which was fished out OF Ecorse
creek in sacks last September.
Patients who claimed TO have been
In the doctors Office. on the afternoon
the girl is alleged to have died on his
operating table. testified TO his calm
and collected demeanor on the occas-
ion OF their visit They found him
pleasant and smiling, just as he al
ways was" and DR.. Fritch lived up
to the picture on the witness stand.
Yes, even the smile was there though
sarcastic at times. How perfectly
absurd it all was. anyway. The very
idea OF a conscientious. Woodworking
little doctor like George Fritch being
accused OF such a heinous crime :
Preposterous That was what he said
in effect.
His story was a summing up and
piecing together of the testimony OF
his patients, with the addition OF his
emphatic denial of the main facts set
forth by the prosecution. touching the
alleged crime. He gathered up the
incidents related by his friends and
patients in one, big metaphorical
blanket. as it were, then stitched II
together and tied the ends with a
surgeons knot Ii he had studied his
lines, and committed them TO memory
his testimony could not have run
more smoothly.
Prosecutor Appears Uninterested.
Least interested OF the doctor
hearers, to all outward appearances,
was Prosecutor Van Zile, who sat
munching a quid of gum with evident
satisfaction. and coming the pages
OF his notebook the while. To him
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Fritch directed them. lie was not
asked TO give the name Of the other
doctor
In his conversation with Mabel Mil
man no price was mentioned. said
Fritch.
You know hundreds come TO your
Office 10 make appointments for exam,
nations" ne added
Not 10 my Office corrected Lodge.
oh. that's SO. you're only half
doctor" (Mr lodge is a medico-legal
eXpert)
Fritch said he had been arrested
three times. Sept. s, oct. "a and once
in between those dates The exact
time he couldn't recall.
That's the time Cody arrested me
he laughed referring TO his midnight
iaunl with demented man.
Fritch denied he had offered 10 give
Mrs Leach any money when she came
10 his Office after her husbands arrest.
or even suggested such a thing. He
also denied that he had talked with
Leach about the case or had advised
him what TO say 20 Capt. Mcdonnell.
That's all" announced Lodge. and
Dr. Fritch stepped lightly from the
stand as court adjourned. shortly be
fore . o'clock HIS testimony con
sumed exactly one hour. and. standing
by Itself. his story sounded plausible
enough. He was the last witness fog
the defense.
And now he cried defiantly when
court had adjourned, let the prose
cutor come ahead with has crossexam
ination. I'm ready for him.
Wife and Sister-in-Law Testify.
Just prior To Or Frltch's appearance
on the stand, Mrs. Fritch and her sis
ter. Miss Agnes Rodger. gave the last
testimony in remarkable chain oil
evidence by which the defense sought
TO totally disproye the sensational
I story of Chauffeur Joe Leach. that
/ Fritch carried Mabel Millmans body
out 10 Leach's auto. from the physi
clans office, at about $50 o'clock, on
the night of Aug. 27 and then rode in
| Leach's machine TO Ecorse Creek
where the body was disposed Of
Mrs. Ida Putzig. No. SO Roosevelt
ave. was the first OF these witnesses
at Friday afternoons session She
swore that she took her eight-year-old
daughter to DR.. Fritch's Office at
o clock that night. to be, treated foi
kidney trouble. There was a crowd "
the reception room. she stated. and she
| waited until long after 9 O'Clock. She
said she heard the city hall bell strike
! 8. After the child had been treated
/ she paid DR.. Fritch bill of $3.50, an
/ had the receipt. DR. Fritch closed his
Office and went out with her, she said
/ When she remarked that IL must be
4 getting late, he pulled ont his watch
( II was half past 3. She didn't see DR.
! Fritch carry any parcels out OF his
Office: didn't see an automobile. moi
! did she see Joe Leach. Dr. Fritch
! left her at the corner.
What time did YOU get home?' was
| Prosecutor Van Tiles only question
and she replied AT about 9:45." The
/ prosecutor then informed the court
I that he would reserve the right &c
question her further later on.
This Witness Bashful.
John W. I.athrop of Lathrop farm
/ Lathrop road, Greenfield. was bash
! full person who didn't seem to think
! that his kidney trouble was any OF tn,
! jury's business. and surely wasn't {
/ fit subject To talk about. except "sottC
voice. in the court room.
I.athrop just simply would not raise
his voice in telling about his consulta
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were hashes OF fire in his dark-brown
eyes.
Did you ever lay hands on Mabel
Millman" Lodge continued, after a
pause.
Yes" came the unexpected reply.
which caused everybody 90 sit up and
take notice. But the shock was only
momentary. for he fastened TO add
II think | shook hands with her
that evening she called. II that were
she. and | presume II was.
The doctor seemed To enjoy the 1T
tie furore his incomplete answer had
created He was amused al MS own
lcleyerness.
Ibid You perform criminal oper-
, alton ON her at any time?' the atlor
neg went on
Denies Operation.
Il did not"
Did You give her an anesthetlc AT
any time?'
Did you cut up her body. at any
time? Notice say, AT any time
Il did not"
Carefully piloted by his attorney, d.
Fritch went on 10 relate very glibly
the telephone incident with Mrs
/ Leach and told OF his movements on
/ the afternoon and evening OF Aug. -,
substantially as his Witnesses had
already related them, supplying an ex-
/ ira detail here and there. His story
fitted in perfectly with the testimony
OF his patients aud friends aud with
some of the statements OF the prosecr-
/ lions Witnesses on immaterial points,
i on "a
he had Porath bricks around his
/ Trumbull-ave. home, and c. III. Little
cement sacks to burn,-just such
bricks and sacks as those used in the
disposition OF Miss Millman's body,
and he had never made any secret ~
H. But. pshaw, Wasn't there a whole
pile of old bricks right across the
street from his office last August?
Wasn't Grand River and Trumbull-
ayes. lined with them because Of paw
/ ing operations that were going on ar
that time? What, then, would have
been the sense in his taking Joe Leach
way up 10 his house 10 get half a
dozen bricks 10 weight down those
sacks? That was the inference the
jury was expected TO draw.
Then you didn't go to Ecorse with
Joe Leacn
NO"
Didn't carry any sacks out of your
Office"
There were none there TO carry
He had been in Joe Leach's ma
chine, yes. But that was on Aug IA,
when Joe took him up TO the Leach
home to attend Mrs. Leach, who was
suffering from weak heart.
The large number OF patients in his
Office that day, Aug. 27, as had been
evidenced by the number sworn as
witnesses. the doctor accounted for by
/ the fact that il was a nice day, just
as Observer Conger had testified 10.
Denies Martha Hennins's story.
He admitted that Miss Henning had
come back TO his Office. with Miss
Reno. looking for Mabel She was
feeling very bad. but didn't even init
mate that she supposed him OF any
wrong-doing, so. OF course. there was
no occasion for his saying, as Martha
had testified. You act as though I'm
guilty"
What he really did say was: Il
hope you girls don't think | really
know anything about this And both
agreed that they didn't. Martha had
said that some other doctor had been
recommended TO Mabel and she
guessed she'd go and see him. DR.
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John W. T.athrop, Of Lathrop farm,
Lathrop road. Greenfield. was bash
full person who didn't seem to think
that his kidney trouble was any OF the
jury's business. and surely wasn't a
fit subject To talk about. except soto
voce." in the court room.
I.athrop just simply would not raise
his voice in telling about his consulta-