The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-19
DOCTOR BEATEN
ALMOST TO DEATH
Earl S. Beers May Die as Re-
suit of Fight With An
gered Husband.
ROW OCCURRED IN OGDEN
F. e. WALKER OF SALT LAKE UN-
DER ARREST.
Especial to The HeraIdl

Ogden, Sept. 1S.-Earl S Beers. physi-
clan, osteopathic, spectacular and timer
ant was beaten almost to death in Og-
den early this afternoon by F. z. Wal
ker. vice president of the Salt Lake Elec-
trical Supply company. He lies at the
point of death at the Ogden general hos
pital At l o'clOck this morning the ply
sicians who are attending him say that
he cannot recover. Walker is under ar
rest at the police headquarters in Ogden
The wounds were acquired by DR.. Beer
in a combat with Walker in which the
latter is not accused of having used Wea-
pons other than his fists.
The cause of the quarrel was Beers at
tentions to Mrs Walker. which have ex-
from three weeks to two months by those
who profess to know the inside of the
case. No secret is made of the fact that
Beers relations with Mrs Walker were
such as to drive her husband to the last
limits of desperation. The affair had
reached climax some days ago and Mr.
Walker had sent his wife TO Los Angeles,
where she now is, in order TO remove her
from the influence of the proximity of
Beers
Practiced in Salt Lake.
All of the parties to the case are young
Beers is not more than % at the most. so
his friends say. Until recently he had
offices al room 30j. Tine Herald building
N0cIe he Was tuSdSeu III NudL Ills SlSu
called the practice of OsteOpathy-" He
lived at the Fifth East Hotel and was
married Mrs Walker lived with her nus
band, whose office is at l53 South Main
street, at the Hotel DAILY She met Beers
at his office, whittier she went in answer
to a medical advertisement for some fan
cied or actual aiiment The date of the
meeting is not known, but friends Of both
unhesitatingiy affirm that she had been
acquainted with him for some time before
her husband was aware that she had met
him.
II has only been within the past few
days that Walker suspected that there
was anything to alarm him in his wife ;
relations or any danger of there being
any cause which might create A danger in
the future. Beers had in the meantime
allied himself with a quack medicine con-
Germ which was in need of Just such a
person to fulfill an engagegent to open
up branch office i'm Ogden. he went
there one week ago last Tuesday and mas
been there since he was IN commune
cation with Mrs Walker in Los Angeles,
/ and in Salt Lake before her departure
was overheard by Detective Fender OF
! Ogden to confer with her over the phone
] as to the ways and means Of an elope-
ment. He said he was saving 500 a week
Story of the Fight.
/ Walker got wind of some OF this and
went TO Ogden Tuesday afternoon He
j had an interview with the Dr.. Beers that
night, winch was coitihueu SeoiSi ue's
when they met in an electrical store
shortly after noon. There were words
and blows and Walker took Beers out
/ into the alley and beat him almost to
death After the combat Beers had one
arm broken, his nose and Jaw broken
and his face beaten TO a pulp. 1t is prob
/ able that his skull also sustained a frac-
/ turc.
The kind of medicine which Beers is
practicing in Ogden can be imagined from
! fbe character of his associates in the af-
/ fair who are here in Salt Lake. Last
week the Ogden medical fraternity filed
| a bill requesting the state to take away
his Utah license on the ground that he
was blatantly guilty Of unprofesslona
! conduct
Beers is not the so-called boy phenom-
onaI." That individuals name IS 5. II
] Wells.