The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-24


at No 90 feminist, was the next wit
ness He testified that he was in DR..
Fritch's Office about o'clock on the
afternoon OF Aug. %, having called TO
see the doctor regarding loan While
he was there the telephone rang and
DR. Fritch answered. Witness had
heard him say
You're too late. There's another
party coming.
They had drink I'm the doctors
office. the witness said. Then they
went out and the doctor bought the
cigars. After a brief conversation
they separated, the doctor going to-
ward COUGHS restaurant. The loan
in question was secured both by u
mortgage and promissory notes, which
were introduced in evidence. The
notes. he said. were given as addi-
tional security in consideration OF the
doctors promissory note TO put the
mortgage on record. The main trans
action. when the money was passed
and the mortgage given. had taken
place on Aug. 90. Mannausa said That
his purpose in calling the next day
was to give Fritch the notes.
The prosecution cross-examination
of the witness WAS barren OF results.
Another Patient Testifies.
Mrs. Anna Dubrolng. Magnolia and
Eighteenth-sts.. another patient OF
Or. Fritch. testified that she was III
Or. Fritchs Office between and {
o'clock on the afternoon of Aug. p to
get some medicine for her mother
whom the doctor was treating for
Bright's disease There were three
or four other women patients in the
reception room when she called. When
she was finally admitted to the inner
Office it must have been between $50
and 4 o'clock While the doctor was
putting up the medicine she stood nj
the operating room looking through
INTO the medicine room where the
doctor was al work.
What aid YOU 20 into the operating
room for Lodge asked.
The doctor always takes me Ia
there, | suppose TO talk to me-
Did YOU see any dead body in
there"
No"
AT any time while you were III
there did you hear any cutlery or any
noise as o. a dead body being dragged
around?"
NO"
The witness volunteered information
about the buzzer which announces
the entrance OF patients and seemed
unusually familiar with the Office and
ITS Layout Asked If she had noticed
anything IN particular about the office
that day. she SAID she had noticcl
painters at work and saw signs
around the entrance She fixed the
GATE as Aug 27 by the fact that Fri
day is her sweeping day and that Il
was the last Friday in the month.
Like other witnesses, she had hg
ured back when she read in the papers
Of the Miilman girls death. she said
on cross examination.
Tell Remarkable Story.
A story as remarkable almost as
that related by Mrs. Mignonnette T..
Messenger. when she was on the stand
for the people, was that told by
friends aud patients OF DR.. Frltch at
Wednesday afternoons session OF the
Fritch trial. While their testimony
corroborated the peoples case In sew
era important "details, the incidents.
In the light OF these apparently plaus-
IDLE explanations took on a wholly in
nocent character
II was admit ed. for instance, that
DR.. FritCh called UP Mrs. Joseph
each. wife of the chauffeur whose
testimony was the prosecutions trump
card against Fritch. on the afternoon
of Aug. -. that he asked for Joe"
and left wCrd for the latter to call him
up when he came home, just as Mrs
leach hal testified. But. according 40
the testimony OF tho Fritch witnesses,
me doctors object in calling Leach
was 20 get an automobile TO convey
one OF his patients. Walter G. Drake,
VINO was suffering from injuriess 70
his head received ia an accident sew
eral days before to his home
Lcachs automobile apparently was
the only one In town, so far as the
doctor was concerned, 10" he made 10
fort to secure one from any other
source Anyway. Mir Drake got bet
ter right after that and was able 70
90 home on ear, in spite OF all the
fuss that had been made previously
over the automobile and the exchange
of telephone messages between D..
Fritch and Mrs Drake. wife OF the ga
lent. and. in turn. between Mrs. DraNe
and her husband = ONCE girl
Mr.. Drake. IS the way is DR.,
Truch's nearest neighbor I'M the build.
ine AT S latest and Westinghouse,
where the doctor has his office, He =
manager of the Gas Consumers assO.
citation. located directly across the
hall from the doctors suite, aad
Frifch is his family physician
Mr.. DRAKE was unable TO fix Aug.
- as the day when he was SO cN
t~emely nervous that the doctor saw
nj to ca an automobile He knew
liz WAS toward tie end of the month
I However. and said he was In and ou'
NJ Or Fritchs oihce several times
lie saw 30 woman standing in the hall
that afternoon IA, admitted on cross
Examination. thai this date misI'