The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-13
Ogden, Friday, Dec. 10.

was something of Importance in this
connection that had been discovered.
The district attorney aided somewhat in
carrying farther this intimation.
Does counsel mean that Harrison is
working for Mr.. NicOl?" Numbered Mr..
Hutchinson.
AT this point Judge Howell interrupt
ed and said that if a statement was de-
sired of the deputy sheriff he should
be sworn and put on the stand. He
was not called to testify.
Just before adjourning for the noon
recess, in a discussion as to whether or
not court should be held on Saturday,
Attorney Hutchinson stated that in his
opinion the case would be ready to be
submitted to the jury by Saturday af-
ternOOn 1t is evident, therefore that
the climax in the case will be reached
today when Walker and Lawrence will
be called upon to tell their versions of
the tragedy.
Mrs. Donahue's Story.
Mrs. DOnahue. who was on the stand
when court adjourned on Wednesday
evening, was called to the chair when
court convened yesterday morning. Be
fore she was allowed to testify lengthy
arguments We're made regarding points
OF law that arose in the case the pre-
ceding day. The witness began her mar
ratIve by repeating a conversation she
overheard between Walker and his wife
in the hall of the Lennox hotel iii Salt
Lake, OF which she is the proprietress.
i saw MIR. and Mrs. Walker stand
ing in the hall. She was crying and l
heard him say. Josie. this man does
not love you with true love as | do.
How could he come here and tell you
hot h.,
wife? For the sake of our baby think
of this step before you take it-this
will kill me- Josie sobbed and said:
I can't help it, I've already made ap-
plicatiOn for a divorce and if cannot
get it in Salt Lake l will get it in Og-
dem l advised her TO give Mr.. Beers
up and she said she loved the doctor
"On the evening of September H.
after returning from the depot, where
he had seen his wife and child depart
for Los Angeles, Mr. Walker told me
that he and Josie had talked the mat
ter over and had decided to forget the
past. He said he sent her to Los An
geles. He then asked me if his wife
took the baby with her when she went
to Ogden. / told him that she did once
and he asked me if she went more than
once and where she stopped. told him
that if she could not get a divorce in
Salt Lake to come to Ogden and get it
there. Mr.. Walker told me that he was
going to save his money and build lit
tie cottage for her.
con Sunday. September l5 at the ho-
tel, Walker came to me and said he
had letter he would like me to read,
he took a seat and I read the letter to
him. 1t contained fourteen or fifteen
pages Witness here identified a letter
produced by counsel for the defense.
Dazed by Troubles.
He was sitting on the sofa as though
he was dazed. l called Mr.. Walker
twice before I aroused him. He said:
What effect do you think that letter
will have on my wife, I told him
thought it would have a good effect.
He then pleaded with me and said:
Mrs. Donahue, you can help me. Save
my wife for me from that man and God
will reward you He asked me to write
and tell her that if the doctor should
write 10 her TO return his letters I'M
read. He then said that Mrs. Beers
had telephOned him that the doctor in
tended to follow Mrs. Walker to Los
Angeles. I told him that Josie said he
would not go for three months. He had
said that he had a good practice in Og-
den and had saved 500 that week. Mr..
Walker said, I will go home and stay
with my mother. I told him that was
the best place for him to go. and he
left.
Mrs Walker told me that the doctor
was going to return to Salt Lake and
would like to ike at the Lennox. She
said she did not want him to come there
because Fred was there and she was
afraid they would have trouble.
Mr.. Walker begged me TO tell DR..
Beers to keep away from his wife and
baby or I will kill him if he doesn't
l told him that for the sake of his
mother he should not touch that man.
He swore that he would not touch him
but wanted Beers to think he would.
Walker left the Lennox the next day to
go to live with his mother"
The witness was then turned over to
the prosecution for cross examination.
She said that she loved both Mr.. and
Mrs. Walker, but that she did not have
much sympathy after the trouble be-
cause she thought that if she had prop
er feeling for him she would not have
acted as she did.
Talked to Detective.
''Have you talked with Detective
Sheets about this case?" asked Judge
Corn.
Il have not" replied the witness.
Mrs. DOnahue denied that she had
talked the case over with either Mr.
Sheets or Attorney Hutchinson but
later modified this and said that she
had told them all she had repeated on
the witness stand She said that on
Sept. Mrs. Walker would not return
TO her room with the defendant. She
thought they sat up all that night She
said, however. that they occupied the
same room after that. Counsel then
asked if any other misconduct of Beers
and Mrs Walker came under her OBJ
servatiOn before the time referred to-
She said that she did not know of any.
but stated that on one occasion Beers
and Mrs. Walker were standing in the
hall Beers had his arm around Mrs.
Walker when Walker came out of the
room and they had trouble. She said
that Beers and Mrs. Walker were very
Witness further testified
that Walker on one occasion told his
wife that il was merely an infatuation
between her and the doctor and that
he would soon tire of her and cast her
off.
Did you not hear her say she would
rather be the mistress of DR.. Beers |
than the wife of Walker?" asked coun-
sci for the state.
NO" replied the witness. She said
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