The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-11


max to day of sensations, Mrs. Earl
S. Beers, widow of the doctor on ac-
count of whose death Fred C. Walker
and Edward Lawrence are now facing
murder charge, staggered from the
witness stand after telling of the in
timacy of her husband with Mrs Fred
c. Walker. and fell in a dead faint at
$3.50 this afternoon. Seemingly Il strange
prank of fate brought Miss Susie c.
Walker, the sister of the principal de-
PENDANT, as one of the first to the aid
of the stricken woman.
Mrs. Beers was I'm a state of collapse
as she stepped from the witness box
The ordeal which she had undergone
had strained her nerves to the break
ing point. Sobbing piteo1sly, Mrs.
Beers was forced to tell in the crowded
court room the details of her husbands
infidelity. With the recollection of the
tragedy fresh in her mind as she re-
called the incidents of her husbands
intrigue with Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Beers
shook with emotion and told with great
difficulty of the events leading up to
the violent death of DR.. Beers.
BY sheer will power. Mrs. Beers kept
up her nerve until the last, although
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she were about to break down. Her
condition finally grew so serious that
Judge w. L. Maginnis, her attorney,
interfered in her behalf.
Attorney to the Rescue.
II think this has gone far enough"
he said. LAS attorney for Mrs. Beers
wish at this time to protest against
this torture that she is undergoing
t.
system cannot stand the terrible or
deal to which she is being subjected.
would ask that she be given "a med
zeal examination to ascertain as t. her
present condition, and if 1t can be
proven that she is unable to stand the
nervous strain, 1 would ask that an ad-
journment be taken until such time as
she can stand this strain"
Attorney Hutchinson said that he
realized the condition of the woman
and that 1t was a hardship TO De forced
to subject her to this examination
However, he felt that il was his duty
to put before the court this evidence
He was satisfied that it would be sub
jecting this woman to too much suffer-
ing to continue the examination fur
Their, and he consented to her with
drawal He asked an adjournment Of
court until next Tuesday morning
which was granted.
Falls in Faint.
AS the spectators were leaving the
court room Mrs. Beels. pale and weak
from the ordeal. stepped from the
stand and staggered toward her seat
Just as she reached IT she dropped in
a faint. Her condition was somewhat
improved last evening. Mrs. Beers will
come to Salt Lake tomorrow to rest
until the hearing is resumed.
BY the testimony of Mrs. Beers the
defense hoped to show that Fred c.
Walker knew of the intimacy of his
wife and DR.. Earl C. Beers, and in that
way to establish a justification for the
homicide Almost alb of the testimony
given by Mrs. Beers while she was on
the stand was favorable to the defense
in proving this fact.
Went .to Ogden at Mrs. Beers Re-
quest.
An important point in the evidence
of Mrs. Beers was that Walker had
gone to Ogden at her request. and that
the tragedy that resulted was because
of the fact that Mrs. Beers declined to
carry a message from Walker to her
husband, and requested that he go to
see him personally. 1t was also brought
out that Mrs. Walker had confessed her
indiscretions to her husband, and that
she had been forgiven.
Two days before the tragedy Mrs.
Beers said that she went to Salt Lake
to talk to Mr.. Walker concerning the
trouble in the two families. She went
to the residence of Deputy Sheriff ].
Farley White, and from there called up
Mr. Walker at the office of the Salt
Lake Electrical Supply company. 1t
was at that conversation that she re-
quested Mr. Walker to come to ogden
to see her husband about this matter.
He said he would prefer that she car
ry a message to him, but this she re
fused to do.
Hope to Secure Bail.
The purpose of the defense in bring
ing out the intimacy between Mrs.
Walker and the victim of the tragedy
was not to prevent Fred c. Walker
from being held to the district court for
trial, but was submitted In order that
some degree of justification of the
crime might be established in order
to form a foundation for the motion for
Walkers admission TO bail. The intro
auction of testimony by the defense at
this time would ordinarily be consid-
cred detrimental to it's case, but Walk
er's health is such that his friends be-
lieve that he should be given his liber-
ty at all hazards.
For the first time since the COM
mencement of the hearing Walker 5