The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-03-22
1924 ROTARY CONVENTION COMES HERE
Doctor, Facing Trial in Fritizi Mann
Murder, Blames "F0Ol Altruism''

San Diego, Calf, March %
! Good Samaritan to n pretty girl on
perilous byway of love.
pr. Louis L. Jacobs. 30, debonair
captain in the United States Public
Health Service at Camp kcarney.
will seek to persuade jury this was
his odd role in the case of FRITZ
Mann. for whose murder he stands
indicted and will 60 to trial March
&c.
Damned fool altruism," he says,
accounted for his interest in the at
tractive 2O-year-old cabaret dancer
whose half-clad body was found on
the lonely Torrey Pines beach Jan.
Is.
For the circumstances shaping
the tragedy and for any act leading
to her death the army physician has
. stoutly disclaimedD guilt.
F.! Case Circumstantial.
The case against him, so far as il.
has been divulgcd by District At
torncy Kempley. is wholly ctrcum-
stantial. He, expects to establish an
! alibi when the proper time comes"
Prosecution is based on the theory
that Miss Mann was stunned by "A
blow on the head. and was then cast
| into the sea where she was drowned
after brief revival.
She had spent the early part of
the previous evening with man at
| the Blue Seat cottages in La Jolla.
The two arrived in a closed car
and were registered by f. A. Kern,
proprietor. as man and wife under
fictitious names.
Kern had scrutinizcd the woman
carefully and identified her readily.
About the man he was less certain.
Miss Mann and her escort left the
cabin for an hour, returned and
left again for good. Kern will tell
the jury.
Possessions Scattered.
The spot where the body was
found is 10 miles away. On the road,
apparently scattered in flight, were
the handbag. vanity case and kimona
of the dancer and blanket from the
Blue Sea cottage.
That the pretty entertainer was
the victim of her own popularity
is the autopsy testimony. She had
loved someone not wisely but too
well, according to surgeons.
And it yas in worry of the conse-
qucnces that she consulted him, de-
clares DR.. Jacobs. He had, he ad-
mitted, advised her about con-
templated operation which was to
have taken place few days after
the sea solved her problem. He had
also arranged for nurse, police
say.
II am friend of the dead girl"
the army man told officers the day
investigation started. "She had re-
Gently confided in me. Told me she
was secretly married. want to do
what can to help clear the mys-
terry"
DR.. Jacobs was arrested, released
on writ of habeas corpus, and
then secretly indicted two weeks
later after Chief of Police Patrick
had said to him, "Im. not at all
satisfied with what you have told
u.s."
The weakness of the states case
is the professed inability of E. A.
Kern positively to identity Jacobs
as the man who occupied his cot
tage with Miss Mann.
DR.. Jacobs defense weakness lies
in failure thus far to substantiate
with witnesses his claim that he
was at the Grand hotel during the
hours fixed by Investigators as the
death period.
Army friends are strongly aligned
behind the Camp kearney captain
ad the trial promises to be one of
the bitterest contests ever fought in
San Diego courts.
Fritzi Mann was born in Austria
OF Polish Hungarian parents. She
lived in Denver from childhood un-
til about two years ago, when she
came to San Diego and Los Angeles.