Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-14
MEDIC CHARGED WITH
 ILLEGAL OPERATION
Father of Girl Was on Jury When De- fendant Was Acquitted on Mur-
 der Charge Years Ago.


 seldom found outside of fiction, are presented in the case of pr. George A. Fritch, well-known Detroit physi- elan, who is to have preliminary ex- animation in court tomorrow on charge of manslaughter in connec- tion with the death of Mrs. Christine Gordon, following an illegal opera tion.
 l The story has it's beginning in 1909, just eight years ago this month, when pretty little "college widow" Mabel Millman, of a well-known Michigan | family. reared amidst the influences of highest culture, met death in an effort to prevent her family and ac- uuaintances from learning of her in- discretion. The grewsome method to which the illegal practitioner to whom i she had gone in her trouble resorted ] in an attempt to hide his part in her death caused her name to be banded all over the world.
 1 Dr. Fritsch was arrested on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the crime. He was arrested shortly after the dismembered body of the girl, whose home was at Ann Arbor, was taken from a deep creek near this city. His original arrest was ordered on charge of suspect ed murder. The facts in the case had been so carefully hidden that even circumstantial evidence sufficient to hold him without bail was lacking. After few days incarceration he vas released on bonds signed by some of the most influential men of his home city.
 Meanwhile the police set to work to uncover the positive proof of the physicians guilt. Mabel Millman was traced to the office of Dr. Fritch, where she went in company with her girl chum, the night before she dis appeared on August 27, 1909. She was also traced to the same physi- cian's office on the afternoon of the day she is supposed to have died. | The missing link in the evidence was furnished by a chauffeur, who confessed that he had assisted Dr. Fritch in conveying three bags simi- lar in size, shape and weight to those in which the portions of Miss Mill mans body were found, to a bridge over Loorse creek, not far from the spot where the dismembered body was discovered.
 Despite the convincing proof in the hands of the authorities it was found most difficult matter to convict the accused physician and make him pay the legal penalty for his alleged crimes. With the wealth and influ ence at his command he took advant- age of every twist and turn of the law in an effort to escape going to trial. When, after having exhausted every legal resource, he finally faced the bar he was defended by the best legal talent that money could pro- cure. The trial was bitterly fought on both sides. In the end the physician was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary.
 Appeals were taken and other we'll known methods adopted to delay the beginning of the sentence. But in the course of time the physician was taken to state prison to begin his long sentence.
 Before he had been many days be- hind the bar, however, the verdict of the trial court was reversed on tech nicality by the higher tribunal and a new trial of the case was ordered. lneTcupOH, LIT. TIICCIl, do uapPCI anu self-confident as before his conviction. was returned to Detroit to be tried again.
 The second trial, as often the case, resulted in an acquittal of the ac- cused. That night, following the con- clusion of the trial, Dr. Fritch, in a! spirit of jubilation following the re- gaining of his freedom, entertained the members of the jury at a sump- tuous dinner at one of the prominent downtown hotels.
 And now comes the denouement, and the strangest part of the story. The foreman of the jury who sat at the head of the table that night and enjoyed the hospitality of Dr. Fritch, is the father of Mrs. Christine Gordon, for whose death under circumstances similar to the Millman case, Dr. Fritch is now to answer to the law.
 MRS. NlVEN OF TUCKER, INJURED.