The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-11
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months" l said: DO you think that
that is a good plan?" He said: why
she has made confession of all, and L
think she will be all right"
Q.-What did you say to Mr.. Walker
about his coming up to see DIR. Beers
in ogden?
Al said: Mr. Walker, don't you
think it would be better for you to go
up and see the doctor in person than
l or writing it?" He said: Il have
told him, Mrs. Beers, what 1 mean TO
do on this subject,
Dwell what subject was it?
Alt was the relation between his wife
and my husband.
Q.-What did Mr.. Walker say to you
about going to Ogden to see your hus-
band after you made that statement to
him?
Didn't Want to See Beers.
A-Mr. Walker says: Mrs. Beers, 1
think it is right for you to write to your
husband and tell him what | tell you
to tell him l says: Mr.. Walker, 1
won't do it"
Q.-You talked with Mr.. Walker over
the phone from Ogden to Salt Lake
City?
A-Yes, sir, did, in Mr. Lawrence's
office, when L first heard of the trou-
BILE. Mr.. Lawrence and all his employees
were there and they heard all that l
said. 1 asked Mr.. Walker if Mrs. Walk
er was with him. | says: rs Mrs. Walk
er over here?' Before that Mr.. Law
livered to the doctor asking him to please
tell where Mrs. Walker was"
Q. Now what was said by you over the
phone to Mr.. Walker?
A. / simply asked Mr.. Walker if he
had heard from DR.. Beers and if he
thought there was anything in the scan
dal that was going around US. That was
all / asked Mr. Walker.
F Q. What was said by you about the
scandal that was going around?
A I said I did not believe it.
Q. Believe what?
"A. All of the talk. You know as well
as l do what was being said.
The Hermitage Trip.
O., What was said by you to Mr. Wal
l1er at that time about your husband be-
ing up at the Hermitage with Mrs. Wal
ker all night?
A. 1 said the doctor had told me at u
o'clock on Sunday that he was going to
Salt Lake City and that he would
turn on the following night at 1890. He
did not return I told him, and l didn't
know that he had been at the Hermitage
until after his telephone call had come In.
Q. Then you told Mr.. Walker that you
then knew he had been at the Hermitage
with Mrs. Walker, did you?
A. l had heard it, yes, sir. The doctor
told me that at the hotel where we We're
rooming, the Colonial, that he was going
to Salt Lake City.
Q. And you learned that he was not
A l didn't learn 1t until the next day.
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Mr.. Walker in reference to Dr. Beers and
Mrs. Walker by phone?
A. / told him the doctor told me he
was going over to collect some money
from Mr.. Black, and / didn't know any
different until next morning. 1 says. II
don't believe the doctor was up there; /
don't know anything about it
Prior to Mrs. Beers testimony the cir
cumstantial evidence of the intimacy be-
tween DR.. Beers and Mrs. Walker had
been introduced. The letters and hotel
register were introduced by the defense
for the purpose of identifying the sig
Register In Evidence.
The register at the European hotel was
introduced in evidence. and the clerk,
Russell II. Harrison. was called to the
stand. He swore that on the evening
of Sept 8. 1907 man whom he identi-
fled through the picture published in The
Herald this morning as DR.. Earl s. Beers,
and a woman whom he identified by an
other newspaper picture as Mrs. Fred
wrote on the register wv. W. Wallace"
Then he looked at her. She nodded
Beers added to the name on the register
"and lady" Mrs. Walker made ges-
ture and he changed the lady" to
wife" They occupied Room IS. The
clerk thought that Mrs. Walker appeared
nervous.
The register of the Fifth East hotel
was introduced in evidence and Mrs.
Beers was called to the stand a moment
to identify the signature of Dr. Beers
on the hotel register of April /. 1907 The
signature was DIR. Earl S. Beers and
wife" Mrs. Beers said that the hand
writing was that of her late husband.
Charles B. T1tcomb, proprietor of the
Fifth East hotel of Salt Lake, identified
the page of the Fifth East hotel register
as one that had been taken from the
register of his hotel.
Mrs. Walkers Letters.
Chief of Police Browning in his testi-
mony produced two letters which he said
he had received. Both were letters sent
to Beers by Mrs. Walker. but which
reached Ogden following the date of his
death. Another letter SnOwn him by At
torney Hutchinson was also identified as
one that had been in his possession, but
which, he had given to Mrs. Beers. They
We're offered i'm evidence. whereupon
Judge Maginnis. counsel for Mrs. Beers
AGED NIGHTWATCHMAN