The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-22
PLACES BLAME
ON MRS. WALKER
Widow of DR.. Beers Says She
Has Only Sympathy for
His Slayer.
MRS. BEERS IN SALT LAKE
WALKER GOES TO OGDEN TO
FACE MURDER CHARGE.

Through her hysterical sobs, Mrs. Earl
S. Beers, widow of the man who met a
tragic death in Ogden last week at
the hands of Fred c. Walker, said last
night that she had nothing but sym
patty for the slayer Of her husband.
The blame I'm the matter she attaches
TO Mrs Walker She holds her husband
blameiess, exCusing his fault by the
tact that Mrs Walker had exercised a
powerful influence over DIR. Beers.
Mrs. Beers came to Salt Lake last even
ing from Ogden with the father of her
dead husband. They stayed all night at
the residence Of Deputy Sheriff J. Farley
White at 56 North Second West street
and Will return to Ogden this morning.
Tomorrow they will take the body of
DR.. Beers to Kearney, Neb., the home Of
his parents, for burial.
The widow came TO Salt Lake to get
the effects left here by her husband. She
called at the LenOx hotel and revisited
the places where the acquaintance ~
Beers and the Walkers was first formed.
Mrs Beers Is a pretty woman. She is
thoroughly gTlef-strlcken. however. and
shows the effects Of the terrible strain
which she has undergone.
6Iames Mrs. Walker.
81 have been in a terrible condition"
she said, land I am only beginning to
feel a little better now. I can scarcely
bear to mention this terrible thing.
don know much about it. The whole
trouble was brought on by Mrs. Walk
er 1 sympathize deeply with Mr. Walk
er and can't bring myself to blame
MIN. He was always a good husband
to Mrs. Walker. Dr. Beers was a good
man and It was the Influence that wo-
man had over him that brought about
this trouble. They have told lots Of
stories about DR.. Beers. but they are all
false He was never implicated in any
trouble before this came up The story
that he left Pueblo because of trouble
with woman is false"
Walker Taken to Ogden.
The center of action in the Beers trag-
edy shifted from Salt Lake City to Og-
den yesterday morning, when Fred
walker was taken there on the 7.1O
O'Clock train by Police Captain George B.
Burbidge- He will be held there with
Edward Lawrence, manager of the Og-
den office of the Salt Lake Electrical
supply company, and the only witness to
the tght IN which Beers received the in
juries that resulted in his death The
next development in the case will be
row.
Edward Lawrence. whose testimony at
the inquest will be the prime factor in
determining the further direction of the
case. aside from being the witness to the
fight. had figured before in the case. as
being a close friend as well as a business
associate of Walker. He is d son of
of the city and county building in this
city, who Is now the chief engineer of
the temple. He went to ogden yester-
day.
New Facts Appear.
The facts which were printed in The
Herald Saturday morning concerning
that occurrence have been supplemented
The new features are that Mrs Walker
had her seVen-yeaT-Old child Josie with
her on the Ogden trip. and that her hus-
band was not aware of her whereabouts
until Monday morning, when he met her
at the station as she arrived i'm Salt Lake
with Beers.
The whereabouts of Walker during this
Saturday and Sunday while Mrs. Walker.
the child. Beers and Mrs. Beers were
getting into complications in Ogden are
still unknown to his friends. He was not
at the DenOX- On Monday morning he
to his wife. He was told she had gone
to Ogden the Saturday previous. Walker
had eft the hotel Friday. He expressed
the greatest establishment.
He must have located his wife through
Mrs Beers or Lawrence or both, for he
met the train bringing Beers and Mrs
Walker and the child to Salt Lake later
that afternoon. Whether or not he had
an interview with Beers at the station or
whether the doctor dropped off the other
side of the car is unknown The three
Walkers arrived at the hotel together.
Later in the evening Beers called at the
LeuOA at W diheI , request he mad lett
word with Mrs. Walker that he would be
at the Kenyon. There had been a scene
between Walker and his wife and she had
told him of Beers whereabouts.
Beers Was Defiant.
Beers came over to the Lenox and he
and Walker had the interview which was
enormously described as having ended
in a fight in the public sitting room of
the LenOX at II o'clock Monday night
-ar,fq her Is m inf ~aTr-
they held before the fight in which there
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