The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-17
Ogden. Tuesday, Dec. I.
sunday and who will be buried this morn

Sunday and who will be buried this morn
ing.
Much of the time yesterday was taken
up with arguments of counsel ObJec-
tiOns came frequently and in each in
stance lengthy arguments followed Ju-
rOr No. II, who was stricken with an at
tack of bronchial trouble on Sunday even
ing, was able to be in MS place, although
suffering. District A .torney HalversOn
announced at the opening OF court that
he was indispOsed and asked that ne be
excused, permitting Judge Corn to act
in his Dlace Attorney Hutchinson OBJ
jected and the objection was sustained
by the court unless il developed that
counsel for the state was too Ill 70 pro-
coed farther in the case.
Judge Howell, who had under consld-
Grafton the relevancy of introducing evil
dence tending to show the character of
the accused's wife. since the previous ses-
sion. sustained the objection of the de-
Tense, and Walker was not asked any
thing more along this line.
Much of the ground covered on Walk
er previous examination was again gone
over yesterday. He could not give any
intelligent reason as to why he walked
the floor all night when he discovered his
Wife's name and that Of Mrs W. W. Wal
lace written on the Healy hotel register.
He defined what he understood to be
symptoms of epilepsy, with which he tes
titled his wife was suffering and for
which she was treated by DR.. Beers. He
said that Mrs Walker had been exam
Il
and that he diagnosed her case the same
as Dr. Beers.
The witness was closely questioned with
regard TO the conversation said to have
diately before the tragedy. He would not
admit that when he told DR.. Beers that
he was willing to be searched by him to
see that J haven't anything on me- he
meant deadly weapons or weapons of any
kind When closely Intercepted on this
point Walker stated that he only wanted
to talk with Beers and have him know
it was to be in q fair way. He said he
did not see Beers eating chocolates as ne
came TO the store where the tragedy oc-
CURED and said that Beers appeared de-
fiant when witness told him that he
might search him and see that he had
nothing on him.
The district attorney spent much time
in trying to get the witness to make ad-
regarding the writing of the let
tiers in the case and thus discredit the
testimony Of Mrs. Donohue. When Walk
er was asked to Tecite for the third time
all that he remembered as having oc-
CURED between him and DR.. Beers he
word for word, the story he had
told twice before. He insisted that he
did not think his wife untrue until he was
told by DR.. Beers and stated that he
now knew she had been untrue by all the
circumstances and by what that man
told him.
Would you rather believe DR.. Beers
than your wife," asked the district at
tOrney.
There is no choice between them
now" said Walker as he choked back
the sObs that rose in his throat
On several occasions counsel for both
sides joined in offering documentary evil
dence. This is true of both the Hermit
age and Healy hotel registers and the
envelopes in which Walker is said to
have enclosed the three letters to his
wife. There was objection, however,
raised by counsel for the defense to the
register of the European hotel.
In addition to Mr.. Cleaveland and Mr.
HOag, J. J. GALLAGHER of Salt Lake, who
conducted the restaurant at the Hermit
age last summer, was on the stand dur
ing the afternoon He testified as to his
connection with the Hermitage and was
asked If he knew who occupied rooms 2
and 10 on Sept. 10 In the argument
which followed. the district attorney, who
spoke at length, referred to the Thaw
case as an instance in holding that the
defendant could not cOrrObOrate the con-
fessiOn of defilement by the deceased.
This point was still undecided when court
for the day.