The Detroit times., 1910-03-01
Or. FR|TCH TRIAL
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Is framc-up from beginning TO end,
aud | can present proofs tor that
sta~,ment. want To call your atten-
tion right here to certain ear marks
that stamp this testimony as falso
For instance. there is scarcely dis
crepancy anywhere II all dOvetals
in very nicely II Is like turning a
crank aud IL comes out OF the hopper
all just exactly alike
The prosecutor defended the action
of the police in arresting Fritch with
out warrant and regarded as signii.
cant the eact thar Fritch had refused
10 maze any statement. even a denial,
when confronted with Joe" Leach.
Case Hinges on Leach's story.
If YOU believe the story OF Joe
leach" he said that is really all
there is go this case II his story -
true. Dr rritch is the man who had
| that body and the man who took the
life of that girl. II YOU find that
| Fritch is Tie man who carried thOse
sacks ont OF his office and took them
TO Ecorse creek You will have found
the man who is the guilty party in
this case
Nov shy shouldn't YOU believe
Joe Leach? The defense has gone
from Dan to Bersheba in an effort -
End something against him. someonh
TO attack his reputation, yet they
thave not produced one scintilla OF evi
dcncc OF this character.
Did YOU ever stop 10 think what
1 condition man must be in who
has on his hands the dead body of
/ person whose life he has taken? And
did You ever notice that these crimes
came 10 light because OF some mis-
take made by the murderer? What
Llore natural than that Fritch should
turn TO q friend he thought he could
4 trust? The body had To be disposed Of
and II had 10 be carried out the front
4 door because there was no back door.
/ lie couldn't carry il ont with sheet
l. over il without advertising the fact
1 TO the whole world So he cut up the
4 body and placed il In sacks. so that T.
anyone became inquisitve he couli
/ say that he was just carrying out a
/ few packages nothing suspicious
looking about a sack
Il repeat. ii Joe Leach is telling
4 the truth. that is tho end of the case.
II We know that Mabel Millman's body
1 came oGt OF that office in SACKS. We
don't IRE where he had the body COZ
/ cealed while his patients were in his
1 Office. don't care whether be had
i IL under bed or stuck In a closet,
4 That doesn't matter, If that body was
II taken ont OF his Office that night cut
i uJ INTO three parts and placed in
i three sacks
A The mere fact that the doctors
II patients didn't see any body or hear
4 any Outcries doesn't prove there were
II none. Why. there were plenty OF
j places to hide II in that Office Though
n Y seems 10 me that some OF the pa
Il tlents strained point to peer into
II closets they didn't peek into all the
4 corners
4 Gentlemen, all the circumstances
4 in this case go TO show that Dr. Fritch
Il Is guilty and the defense has pro-
"A duced no evidence to controvert tina,
n theory.
i That closed the prosecutors open
4 ing argument. which consumed an
4 hour and half
n Lodge Begins Address.
81 stronger than any evidence that
II has been introduced in this case was
n The mastery summing up OF Prosecu-
A tor Van Ile We have just listened to-
A said Attorney Lodge. beginning the
"A argument for the defense.
A Il think | may safely say that you
II have now sen the full strength of the
IA peoples case. and you have heard
Il hat all presented in the most skill
Y ful manner possible No one can
"A rcalize the terrible burden that is on
"A an attorneys shoulders from the time
"A ne enters the court room 10 take up
.tral until the jury retires to its de
III liberatons. Jurymen are but men
II after all. subject to the same pre-.
~ judices as other men are, and man
81,
ways in mind: How will this look to
n the jury beg OF YOU To consider
h that i'm making my exceptions on the
! record have had no desire to inter.
n rupt the trial have had no other de
'sire than to protect the interest OF
III my client.
III The prosecutor has appealed to
4 you To try This case by the evidence
rather than by the testimony. | join
NJ iraternal hands with him In that
statement. and ! am willing TO have
my clients fate determined on the
evidence and the evidence alone
THE prosecutor has said that our
witnesses have been sprung on him
suddenly while We have had notice
months i'm advance OF the witnesses
he prosecution would call Did you
notice that when swore a witness
| asked that witness his or her full
name. address and other like Ques-
tons
The police have had every facility =
look up these witnesses; they have
had FIVE detectives doing nothing but
looking after this case Yet there
have Leen only two pitiful attempts -
dscredit our witnesses.
Lashes Frank Knott.
You have heard this man Frank
Knott-shall | call him man ?-ad
init that he stole the baby from his
home and paltry So from his wifes
pocketoookI You have this man. who
has been supported by his wifc's
father since his marriage, and hts
squota to the peoples case. You have
seen the veil OF secrecy torn from the
most sacred Of domestic relations. 50