The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
CHARGE OF MURDER
PLACES WALKER Nv
FEARFUL DILEMMA
Slayer of Beers Must Establish His Wfe Dshonor to Save
HimSef-LawenceS Part in Affair Fur
nsheS Element of Mystery,

from Beers were still going on. That Is
according to the four boys employed at
the Supply company's store.
AS to Use of Weapons.
As to the use of a weapon, no testimony
save that of an eye witness can establish
whether death was caused by a fist blow,
a fall or an instrument or weapon The
leading doctors of Salt Lake City who
have followed the case agree absolutely
with both Drs. Condor and Joyce that the
internal fracture of the skull could have
been caused by any of these jars. The
wound was above the right eye and one
of the trivial ones and in no way con-
nected with the cause of his death. This,
by the way, was officially pronounced by
DR.. Joyce as paralysis, resulting from
The formation of a blOd clOt on the brain,
due to d skull fracture
There is nothing in the nature of the
other wounds 10 decide whether or not an
instrument was used to beat Beers. The
room in which Beers was beaten up in
fair fight or foul, is Uttered with innu-
merable tools which either man could
easily have laid hands on and used.
A close student of the case has this to
say: 1T is hard to believe that a man
would allow himself to be beaten nearly
to death in a room Uttered with avail
able weapons; and equally hard to be
lieve that Walker and Lawrence or Wal
an offensive weapon without doing the
same thing. OF course this isn't the
kind of evidence a man could be con-
victed upon, but it is interesting.
Walkers Dilemma.
Under the statute. Walker had a right
to shoot Beers in the back if he can prove
the delinquency of Beers and Mrs Wal
ker. His disappointment at having to nc
so is great While in Jail he has ex-
pressed to his friends the hope that the
trial could come off without his having
to wash his dirty family linen in public
trial. His love for his wife had become
to him habit which was part of his con-
scientious. Woodworking life. This by the
way, is just what Mrs. Walker cOnfided
to her bosom friend She complained that
a woman wanted something more than Z
husband as good and Beers as fascinat
ing One OF them gave her his life anC
was uninteTesting. The other ruined hel
life and was fascinating.
Mrs Walkers stepfather, 9. A. Jacob
son, left for Los Angeles last night on tbs
limited. He is the only one of the princi
pals at the inquest who has any belle
that Mrs Walkers relationship Will
Beers tan not be shown to be such as Il
acquit Walker, whatever may happen t
Lawrence. He said before he left tn,
city that he had wired Mrs. Walker anc
her mother to keep away from Salt Lake
Mrs Walker had wired him that she wa;
coming on. He goes there to persuade he
not to do so until they have arranged
for defense for the trial frhere is n,
flee his daughters good name at the tria
TO save her husband. In view of the let
ter which Mrs. Beers gave to the Sal
Lake Herald and subsequent ones which
nave come out II will be pretty hard.
is thought, for him to attempt to prov
that Mrs Walkers relationship wit
Beers was platOnic and that Walker wa
unreasonably jealous.