The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-26
FR|TCH QUlzzEO As
To OTHER ALLEGED
OPERATIONS
Prosecutor Inquiries About Girls
Said To Have Been Treated BY
Doctor, But Latter Protests He's
Not Malpractitioner.
Defense Furnishes Evidence and
Case Will Go To the Jury Thurs
day Morning.

There was an atmos phere OF eX-
pectancy in Judge Phelans court
Saturday morning. as lawyers detec.
yves. relatives and interested friends
of the accused Or Fritch, gathered
20 renew the battle Detectives High
and Larkins were ON hand early,
looking unusually mysterious They
are The officers who. win Detectives
Parker and Allen. nave been looking
up the antecedents OF the defendant )
"ithtss and gathering evidence to
re submitted in rebuttal. To all inquir.
les as To what was going on they an.
sWered with shrug OF the shoulders
and curt.
IL will all come out"
Prosecutor Van Zile came To court
~ell.primed for the ross-eXaminatiou
Of Or. Fritch. He took from his port
folio any number of bulky. type-writ-
ten documents. transcripts of testi-
mony, etc He had evidently been
hard at work since court adjourned
Friday afternoon.
The prosecutor took up the cross
examination shortly before 10 o'clock
aud began very mildly by questioning
Fritch about his early history He
brought ont that the doctor attended
he Michigan College OF Medicine <
Surgery about three years, but had
not graduated
i believe YOU told Mr. Lodge that
Martha Jennings story was true" ne
continued getting down to brass
lacks.
u didn't say that It was only part
~ true
Did you say TO Miss Hennins that
Mabel Millman might have come to
Your Office Aug. q and that YOU didn't
know it,"
No"
The doctors easy smiling attitude
OF Friday had already vanished. and
he assumed a belligerent air He was
inclined 10 argue points with the
prosecutor and it was evident that
the cross-eXamination would not be
wanting in verbal pyrotechnics.
Fritch declared that after his sec
ond arrest he had asked Van Zile to
come and see him in his cell and had
then offered TO tell him all he knew
OF the case.
But you refused to come, he ad-
ded shaking his fist.
The squabble broke out afresh and
became quite animated. Van Zile fin.
ally interposed:
DO Won want to argue this out, or
do you want to testify?
Go ahead
You and Leach We're good friends
weren't YOU?
Calls Leach a Bum.
Good friends DO you think /
would associate with BUM
Flitch said ne had often had occa-
ion 10 call Leach down for his mode
eff living and had treated him within
he last three years for certain III
ness.
Everybody said Joe Leach is a
-" put in the doctor angrily.
yet you couldn't bring a single PEI
son here 10 attack his character"
Il could have brought 80.
why didn't YOU bring 'em?'
You'd have ruled EN- out Anyway
fl wasn't necessary to bring them.
But YOU didn't bring them
Very few people know the man.
lie doesn't stay long enough in
place
But YOU brought no Witnesses
against this man who has given the
most important testimony against
YOU"
NO. they were not here
Fritch admitted that he had inves-
tigated Leach 10 some extent.
Didn't YOU hear Lodge, in his open
ing statement. say that he would
bring witnesses 10 show Leach was
not telling the TRUTH
Lodge objected. but the question
was allowed.
MY case is In my attorneys hands,
answered Fritch.
other questions along the same line
led ~ a wrangle in which even the
court took hand
Doctor. isn't The reason for YOU not
putting In witnesses as TO your good
character because you know that there
could be plenty OF proof produced that
YOU were engaged In malpractice and
had that reputation
No
us 1t not fact that YOU have been
engaged IN this practice even while
this case has boen-in progress"
Court Excludes Question.
The court. on Lodges vigorous OBJ.
lection. ruled out the last part of the
question.
Haven't right To show that this
tNllR IuN bttu EOluE OH IlENl UP 10
the present time2" insisted the prose
cutor.
Lodge protested vigorously and was
reprmanded Oy Judge Phelan. who re-
minded him that IL was his place .
object and the courts province to
make the ruling.
\"Iet me tell you once for all. Mir
odge. that you must contine Yourself
10 getting your objection on the rec
ord I'll take care OF the rest.
Judge Phelan again held against the
prosecutor holding that acts commit.
ted since the filing of the information
i'm the case at bar are not competent.
He permitted the prosecutor. however.
10 60 back of Aug -.
DO YOU kuov girl named Gertie
Brady" Tan Die resumed
Il don't recall the name, answered.
FritCh.
Did you not perform a criminal
operation on her in your Office on
March 10. l909?"