The Detroit times., 1912-06-15
JUDGE PHELAN WANTS
WOULD-BE BONDSMAN FOR
Or. FRHcH PROSECUTED
Court Aroused at What Looks
Like Perjury BY Jacob l..
Summers
ADMITS HE'S EX-CONVICT
Arrested So Often He Has Lost
Track of Number-Detective
Goes After Leach
ADMITS HE'S EX-CoNvICT

One days developments in the
strenuous campaign to obtain $4,000
bail, in two sureties. for Dr. George
A. Fritch,
Henry NJ. We'll, produce merchant
at No. J36S High-st. east, examined as
bondsman, says that $4,000 cash has
been deposited in two Detroit banks
TO indemnify him. He is TO get $50
for his trouble"
Jacob L. Summers, professional
bondsman, OF No. l4l Canfield-aye
east, is given a severe grilling by
both Assistant Prosecutor Jasnowsh
and Judge Phelan.
Judge Phelan recommends that per-
Jury action be started against him,
and that Summers be prevented, by
the prosecutor, from ever appearing
on another bond.
The matter OF bail for FTitch will
be again taken up, Friday afternoon,
with We'll and John w. Lathrop, as
prospective sureies.
When Jacob l.. Summers appeared
befors Judge Phelan to explain three
different sworn valuations which he
placed at different times on Rus
sellst. house which had been Of
fered as part of the security in the
Fritch bail matter, he was very
meek, and mild man, In contrast to the
breezy gentleman who, a short time
previous. said he was through with
the whole business" and referred TO
II asr"foureflush."
He was given about the worst grill
ing that a prospective bondsman ever
received In local court.
II. 1t. a 81 ha
placed different values on the Rus
sell-st property, under oath, In three
different cases, he meant no wrong,
and the property was worth the $4,000
figure placed on II in the Fritch case.
He admitted that he was pro-
fessional bondsman. He denied, en-
phatically and with some heat, that
he had once been forced by police
man 10 give back watch which he
was alleged TO have taken from a
woman In q bond matter.
He admitted that he had served
three years in prison, and had been
arrested for minor offenses so many
times that he had lost track Of them
Then Judge Phelan arose in his
wrath and numbered: II think the
prosecutor should take steps immedi-
ately to protect the public from such
men as this Summers person.
He frankly admits that he has
been going surety on bonds running
from $500 into the thousands, without
even reading the bonds He should
never be allowed to go on another
bond in this CITY, | would also recon-
mend That the prosecutor get copy
Of these proceedings from the stenog-
rapher, and take steps against this
man SINNERS for perjury, in connec-
ton with his many conflicting state
ments, made here and elsewhere in
regard to his property holdings.
II also order the prosecutor to
bring In all defendants to this court,
on whose bonds Summers appears. He
will be held responsible under the
bond, until another surety can be Sc
cured In his place, or until the de
PENDANTS are delivered into custody"
Summers, perspirlng ana trembling,
took the arraignment like a man who
had received knockout and was
listening TO the court
After Summers had admitted that
\ he was TO receive $500 for going on
the Fritch bond, that he had been on
many other bonds, and did not re-
but had received money in each case,
Mr.. Jasnowsk suddenly stopped his
queries about property. and turned
the inQuisiuon to Summers career,
on the ground that he wanted TO show
that Summers Is not a proper person
for bondsman.
Summers admitted he had spent
three years in prison, and that II cost
him $4,000 to get out, back in the
COS. 40 49, '
Jasn9wsh says that the matter will
not end with Fridays session, but
that he will start an investigation, on
Judge Phelan's recommendation, look:
ing toward perjury charge
Henry M. We'll, who says he has
been In the produce business here for
20 years, offered six-family fat a.
Briish-st.s and Canfield-ave., as Sc
curity. He valued the place at $4,000.
After b conference in which the Of
ficials of the recorders court. the
county. auditors, and Assistant Prose
cutor Jasnowski, participated We'd
nesday afternoon, II was decided TO
send Detective Parker TO Los Angeles
In an effort to induce Joseph Leach
to return to Detroit to testify In the
trial OF DIR. George A. Fritch, who was
granted new trial by the supreme
court on the charge of causing the
death Of Mabel Millman, of Ann Ar
Dor, by an Illegal operation
The auditors did not want to be
put TO the expense OF sending for
Leach without some assurance that
he would return TO Detroit, and they
also wanted some assurance that the
trial would be held at an early date.
as the county would be put TO the
expense OF Leach's keep until the trial
Is completed.
detective Parker, who knows Leach