The Detroit times., 1910-02-25

| you talked with persons dDOht
being there on Sunday. haven't YOU
No"
Witness fixed the time of her ar
rival in Fritch's Office al 2:3O by es-
rlimating that IL took her a half hour .
come down town from her home. thea
on Bewick-ave. She had waited about
half hour when Or Ffitch came out
ana said: How do you do? He ad'
dressed several other women patients
In the same way. Witness was unable
To tell how any OF the other women
! present were dressed. could not de
scribe them at all, in fact The doctor,
she SAID. gave her some little pink
tablets, and she took one In his Office
She was unable 10 say what kind they
were. except that they were pink.
Repeats Telephone Conversation.
Mrs. Knott said that the telephone
rang Immediately after she was al
mitted. and she repeated her testi-
mony OF Wednesday on this point.
Asked how she rixed the time she
was In the Office al one hour, the wit
ness said she was giving her best
! judgment of the time she imagined
she was there.
You've been exercising your imag-
ination good deal in this case,
haven't your
Yes"
The witness said she had paid no
particular attention to what the doc
tor was saying over the telephone on
this occasion.
And yet you recall distinctly that
the doctor mentioned the names of
MRS Drake and Joe Leach, neither or
whom you had ever heard before"
Yes"
Remember il just as we'll as though
you had known these people all your
life?"
Yes"
"Or as though you yourself had been
telephoning TO friend"
Yes"
Don't you think, witness. that IL
just little strange that you can re-
member those things so distinctly in
view OF your own admission that you
didn't pay any attention 10 what was
said over the phone"
mo. | do not
The witness smiled at one Of the
prosecutors questions, which caused
Mr.. Van Zile to ask:
Why do YOU smle?"
II can't help H." was the laughing
response
Does this make you feel nice"
Yes"
Mrs. Knott remembered distinctly
every incident OF her visit, even re-
peating what DR.. Fritch said 10 her
when she left and the reply she made.
There were two or three ladies' In the
outer reception room when she went
out. but she wouldn't know them II
she should see them again. she said
Now suppose you looked into
every room in the place that day."
continued Van Zile
mo. | didn't look in the closets"
Sure you didn't"
why. OF course"
Didn't look in the medicine room
off the operating room?"
No"
Did you ever write out what you
know OF this case?"
NO"
Now, you have had considerable
trouble about this testimony, haven't
you?"
Il have not"
"You haven't? You and your nus
band have had trouble about it,"
Yes"
Your husband and you think diff
ferently about your knowledge OF
this?"
Husband Feels Inundated
He feels that he is Inundated"
He does? Doesn't he allege that
YOU are not telling the truth, and tell
you that"
The question was excluded.
Did you talk with your husband
with reference to his coming on the
stand and testifyng that he saw DR..
Fritch in Kinsels drugstore about
half past 10 o'clock on the 9th?
Il did not
Did you tell him that If he would
come on the stand and testify to that.
that there was $500 in it for him.
Il did not.
And didn't you and he have trouble
because he would not do it?'
Il did not
You did not, and this is not true?'
1T Is not true"
Didn't you tell your husband,
when this matter came out about the
time OF the chauffeurs story or the
Henning girls story and you read IT,
didn't you tell your husband on that
occasion that you were glad that you
was not down at Fritch's on the 27?'
Il did not"
Did not tell him that"
NO"
Because If YOU had been down
there they might get YOU into it,
II did not"
WAS not that the reason that your
husband did not want you 10 testify,
and hasn't he told you that
No"
Because you had said you did not
know anything about ii on the 9th? ?
Il did not"
When your husband told you that
the story you were telling was not
true did you say that you could sub
stantiate It by 10 or 10 witnesses"
II did not"
To Impeach Wife's Story.
That concluded the cross-examina
ton. Attorney Lodge had only a
question or two on redirect examina-
ton and the witness left the stand
In view OF the prosecutors cross-ex-
animation, the value of her testimony
TO he defense was conjectural. IL
is understood that Mrs. Knots hus
band will be called by the prosecu
ton in rebuttal TO impeach her testi-
mony. the foundation having been laid
by the prosecutor in his final ques-
lions.
cyrus o. Mannausa. No. SO Lever
otta.ct who conducts a nrintinR Office