The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29
The Trip to Hermitage.

ment with him."
The Trip to Hermitage.
OF the events leading up to the dramatic
attempt of Mrs. Beers to commit suicide
at the Colonial, the Hermitage and other
incidents which came out before and at
the inquest in Ogden last week, and Law
rences entrance into the tragic story,
1T is said back there that saw DR..
Beers that Saturday night. That is not
true, as DR.. Beers was not in the city.
| went to the theatre with man whom
both Mr.. Walker and knew we'll in Salt
Lake City. 1 was stopping at the Healy
hotel there and Sunday met a lady friend
whose name 1 do not care to tell.
Or. Beers heard / was in the city ana
called on me about noon. We arranged
party to go to the Hermitage in Ogden
canyon, which included DR.. Beers, the
woman whom I knew at the hotel, my
daughter and myself. L returned from the
Hermitage Monday morning.
IN the meantime my husband, having
discovered my absence, on Sunday after
noon telephoned Ed. Lawrence in Ogden to
look me up and tell me to return at once
as my mother was dangerously ILL., My
husband added that he believed / was
staying with Mrs. Beers as he had heard
Mrs. Beers invite me to come and Visit
her in ogden.
MIR. Lawrence communicated with Mrs.
Beers but learned from her that she had
not known / was in the city. Mrs, Beers,
however, called up my husband by tele-
phone and told him there were all kinds
of rumors in Ogden concerning her hus-
band and myself, especially about the no
tel where I was staying.
when l returned from the Hermitage
Mr. Lawrence called me up and delivered
nv husbands message I called him up
and he told me what Mrs. Beers had tolo
him. 1 told him then there was no truth
to her statement and later inquiry about
the hotel proved my words true MIS-
Beers had deliberately lied.
Later in the day Mrs. Beers called me
up and said she and her husband wanted
to see me at his office. told her that II
she cared to see me she could call at the
hotel. A short time later she called and
| asked her about the reports she had
been spreading. 1 then told her l would
go with her to her husbands office and
we could thrash it all out before hlln'
The Dramatic Climax.
Thereupon Mrs. Walker went on to de-
scribe the dramatic climax to the meeting
in the Colonial which has been given be
fore. After the interview she says that
she and Beers came to Salt Lake. Inc
story of this trip has been previously
pressed as to how Beers lodged
Walker who came to meet the
train at Salt Lake. Mrs. Walker
throws no light upon it. Also she doesn
seem to know that Mrs. Beers IolIoWe9
them on the next train from Ogden and
spent the night in Salt Lake CITY, having
mysteries at the Cullen, next door to the
Lenox and vainly seeking her husband
who was apparently at that time III an
interview with Mr. and Mrs. Walker.
Mrs. Walker said that after Mrs Beers
conduct at the interview in ogden;
''Dr. Beers took the evening train for
Salt Lake City and 1t was the same tram
took and on which l said to my husband
I was coming. Mr.. Walker met me at the
depot kissed me and took me home in a
cab. He did not see DR.. Beers. lie told
home Thursday and Friday nights and
asked for another chance. ! told him
would grant it. He said mother was not
sick, but that he sent that word to get
me to return
He then asked me why had been act
ing so queerly and If l had learned 10
care for anyone else. | told him yes. he
said Immediately that If l cared much for
him and he was a worthy man that he
would leave me so l could have the other.
I told him there was no necessity of that,
if we could not agree that | would take
our little girl, 1 could work to support
both and that 1 was in no hurry to marry
any other. He insisted on knowing who
the other was and finally told him 1t was
Dr. Beers. He said he would not leave me
for him. but if l insisted he would XIII
himself and then I could have the doctor.
told him not to do that.
b 1T was then suggested that 1 should
come to Los Angeles for Tour or I'VE
months in which 1 could learn to know
myself and choose which of the two l
wanted. He asked that in that time 1 do
not communicate with DR.. Beers or have
him come and see me.
About this time DR.. Beers teiephoned
me and asked If there had been any trou-
bic. asked him to come to the hotel. /
had then determined to go to Los Angeles
and to tell DR.. Beers of my intentions. l
asked Mr.. Walker to leave US alone while
1 explained the situation. 1 told DR.. Beers
what I intended doing and that he must
not communicate with me until first
after 1 had told him 1 could be nothing
to him in any event until l was a divorced
woman and he a divorced man. He left
the hotel and that was the last l ever
saw of him That was on Monday night
and l left the following Saturday. Sept.
Is, with my mother for Los Angeles.
She Warned Beers.
OF events subsequent to her departure
for Los Angeles on the Los Angeles linn
tied Saturday evening at S:15, Mrs. Walker
seems to have had but a confused knOwl-
edge. She says nothing about the letters
she wrote Beers each day or the tele-
gram she sent the hospital. In another
interview she calls them forgeries. She
doesn't mention in either interview Jacob
sons telegram to her to keep away from
Early last week ION Wednesday of
which the fight occurred and on Friday
Beers DEATH received three letters from
my husband, two Of them written from
Ogden. / knew he would not go to Ogden
unless there was some special reason
and a fear entered my heart. wrote q
letter to DIR. Beers and urged him to
wire me If there was any trouble. / had
many times warned him against Mr. Wal
ker as my husband has a hasty temper
and L feared trouble. DR.. Beers had al
ways answered that he held no fear.
My letters to both my husband and DIR.
| Beers went unanswered and it was nor
until read the newspaper accounts that
/ knew there nad been trouble. Then came
a telegram from my husband after he had
| been bailed out for attacking Beers in
which he said everything would be all
| right.
The next day Beers died and my hus-
| band was again locked up Since then
| have received one letter from him, In
| which he says not to believe anything
| hear until / see him. That is all I have
heard Nothing has come from his law
/ yers.
''45ut my father has written that they
/ are going to take my daughter away from
/ me- How can they do that? / am hei
mother and have prior right to her. They
cannot take it away from me, as l have
a better claim than my husband"
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