The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-13
DEFENSE MAKES
STRONG SHOWING
Salt Lake Woman Tells of
Walkers Effort to Save Wife
From Beers Influence.
SENT HER TO LOS ANGELES
URGED FRIEND TO COUNSEL HER
WISELY.

Il can't help it. 1 have already made
application for a divorce. and if 1 can
not get it in Salt Lake / will get it in
ogden. The doctor is going TO
return to Salt Lake. and would like to
come to the Lennox. don't want him
10 come here. because Fred is here and
I'm afraid they would have trouble.
] love the doctor, and l am not
going TO sacrifice my life for Walker s
happiness"
Above are some of the statements to
which Mrs. Mary Donahue of Salt Lake
testified in the Beers murder trial yes
terday, as being made by Mrs. Josie
Walker, wife of the defendant, prior to
the commission of the deed, when Mrs.
DOnahue talked with Mrs. Walker re-
garding the pending trouble between
her and her husband. More dramatic,
however, were some of the statements
credited to the defendant, when he is
said to have appealed 10 Mrs. Donahue
To aid him in saving his wife from the
influence OF DR.. Beers.
Save my wife from that man for
me- and God viii reward you. Write
n her and tell her if the doctor writes
10 her 10 return his letters unread"
These, the witness said. were some of
the pleadings of the husband after he
get her away from Beers influence. At
another time Mrs. DOnahue said.
Walker asked her to tell DR.. Beers that
if he did not keep away from his wife
and baby he would kill him, and that
when she pleaded for the sake of his
aged mother not to touch Beers, he
swOre that he would not, Tut he wanted
Beers TO think that he would.
Friendly to Walker.
Mrs. Donahue was on the stand for a
greater portion of the morning session
and was subjected to a searching cross
examination at the hands of Special
Prosecutor Judge Corn. She showed in
telling her story that she had a strong
Interest in the prisoners welfare Her
testimony brought tears to the eyes of
many of the auditors, as well as several
of the jurymen. The prisoner himself
broke down completely and cried bit
terIy.
Progress IN the case was decidedly
slow owing to the numerous points of
law raised by the prosecution against
the admissibiiity of evidence offered on
behalf of the prisoner. Much of the
testimony offered has so far been eX-
Cluded. but it has not been disposed of
finally. So far the strongest witness
introduced by counsel for Walker has
been Mrs. DOnahue. A large number of
other witnesses have been put on the
stand in an effort TO prove the relations
between DR.. Beers and Mrs. Walker
prior to the time of the homicide. but
they have all been excluded excepting
that which was told by Mrs. Donahue
Several hotel registers have been iden-
titled. but they have not yet been Of
feTed in evidence.
By the testimony of Mrs Beatrice
Maggie of Salt Lake, by the hotel reg
listers and employees. the defense ex-
poets To show that Mrs. Walker came
TO Ogden and went to the Hermitage
hotel in Ogden canyon with Mrs. Maggie
and DR.. Beers, where they remained
for a day or two: that when an en-
ploye of the hotel went to the room as
signed to DIT. Beers, according to in
sJEuctions, to awaken him, he discov-
cred that Mrs. Walker had also spent
The night in the same room: that DR..
Beers and Mrs. Walker stopped at sew
eral local hotels under the name of
Wallace.
Failed to Impeach.
The deferse largely failed in an at
tempt TO impeach that portion of the
Hulls testimony wherein they stated
that they looked through a door in
their apartments on the day of the
tragedy, down q stairway, and saw
Walker standing before the mirror.
There were a number of these wit
nesses, and il was brought out that the
observations We're made yesterday. On
cross-examinatiO ton their tests did not
prove 10 be thorough. and on many
points they made it clear that it was
possible for Mrs. HUI and her daugh-
ter to see all that they testified to.
An interesting feature of the days