Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-14
WIDOW COMPELLED
TO D|VULGE LIST
Telegram Giving Names and
Amounts of Securities
Comes to Light.
CALLED FISHING EXPEDITION
Judge Powers So Dcnominatcs Tactics
OF Conlcstors of Will in Effort
To Gain Information.

10 SulN
After five witnesses had undergone a
rigid. cross-examinatlon this morning In
the contempt proceedings of Mrs Al
thea Walker. widow of y. f. Walker.
before Charles w. Baldwin, master of
chancery of the United States district
court. at the hands of Atty. c, G. Dey,
several mysteries Of the Walker will
contest case were cleared up. In n telc
gram which Mrs. Althea Walker was
compelled to reveal. was a list of scciiri-
ties which were carried away by her
self and her son. Clarence, and Atty.
j. T. Bennett, when the body of her
husband was sent to San Francisco on
Sept. Is. The steamer strunk mystery
was unravcicd and the manner in which
the trunk was deposited i'll the safety
deposit box in the Utah Savings &c
Trust company's bank and how 1t was
tnkcn out also came to light. The hear
ing will probably be concluded late this
afternoon and the testimony submitted
to Judge John a. Marshall Of the Uni
| ted states district court.
CARETAkER ON THE STAND.
w. w. Hardy. caretalser of the safe
~ deposit boxes in the Utah Savings
& Trust company's bank, was the first
witness called al the hearing this morn
ing. During the lifetime OF MIR. Walker.
Hardy testified, he used to accompany
! Mrs. Walker to her safety deposit box
No. 3o4 He said that he never saw
T.. Il. Raybould come to the bank with
Mrs. Walker, as Raybould testified.
lrt,n hi a
small black steamer trunk which was
in the safety deposit box, nc said: ~ es
| do. According to my reports, 1t was
brought to the bank on Sept. ID. the
day that Mrs. Walker and her son and
Attorney Bennett went with the body
of Mr.. Walker to California. 1t was
put in the vault in the morning OF
Sept. 10 In the afternoon. Mrs. Walker,
accompanied by Mr.. Bennett, called and
took the trunk out of the vault. Bennett
cut the wires and Mrs. Walker culled
over the papers. and | believe took
bundle of them with her.
"The trunk was removed from the
bank on Sept. %" Mr.. Hardy said III
answer to n question regarding 1t. iby
Clarence Walker. He presented at the
| time a written order from Mrs.
| Walker
| When asked in regard to the order he
produced the original copy. which read
as follows: please deliver the trunk
| you now hold and give my son, Clar-.
! ence. access to my box"
(Signed)
MRS. ALTHEA WALKER"
This was dated September q. and,
according to Mr.. Hardy. the trunk was
removed and Clarence Walker went
| through the safety deposit box, but the
| witness did not know what he took out
! with him besides the trunk
| JUDGE POWERS OBJECTS.
Nelson G; Han, assistant manager Of
| the Utah Savings & Trust company. was
! called to testify IN regard to the BANK
| account of Mrs. Walker on Sept. 50, the
| day The injunction was issued in the
| case preventing Mrs. Walker from re-
| moving any property of the estate out
| of the jurisdiction OF the court. When
| asked for Il statement, Attorney O. w.
| Powers objected,
"under this citation, the plaintiff in
| this case has no right to SO into the
| personal bank account and affairs OF
| Mrs Walker. This hearing is becom-
| ing fishing expedition for evidence
| to help prove the allegations set forth
! in the complaint"
| "That statement Is very unjust" re-
| tortcd Attorney c. c. Dcy.
! Master of Chancery Baldwin ruled
| that the witness could answer and Mr..
| Hall replied that on that date she had
! $49G.13 in the bank. Most of 1t had
| been drawn out during the month Of
| October. Hall did not have the amount
| OF the checks and in whose favor they
wore drawn. He was excused and
asked to get this information with what
| deposits had also been made since the
| order was issued.
| Atty Nelson. who Is employed by
| the Walkers was called and asked to
| give the contents of the kilograms he
| received from Bennett and read to Mrs.
| Walker on Oct. 81, Judge Powers oh.
I jected saying that 1t was confidential
business between an attorney and his
| client and was protected under the
state statutes The question was ar.
| gued at some length and the objec-
ton was finally sustained.
| For few moments, d. Il. Walker.
| Jr was called to the stand, He denied
making faces at Mrs. Walker, as she
| testified. He declared that he. did not
| nut detectives on her trail until after
| the Walkers fed from salt Lake.
| When Mrs. Walker was recalled. she
| was asked for the list of securities
which we're carried away In a valises
| at the time Walkers body was sent
| to California. Mr. Bennett wired the
| list which read as follows:
| "Forty-two thousand shares of stock
| in the Los Angeles Electric company:
s31 900 bonds in the Utah Light &
Power company; $1,000 bonds of UTAH
| Light & Power company; 1000 shares
! in Contra! California Traction COM
| pany: 1000 shares Of Western Pacific
| railroad stock; l25 shares in Mammoth
| Mining company: 1850 shares in tha.
| Auto Submarine Torpedo company: 1851
| shares of Bingham Butte Copper Min
| ing company; 1900 shares of Excelsior.
| Mining company; a like Insurance.
| MI Ind Ion, to
| amounting to $4,000