Show MRS BEERS fAINTS AFTER V DOCTORS GUIlT BUILT Her Sensational Testimony at Walker Murder Hearing Proves Too Much for Womans Nerves Evidence to Show Justification for Killing Offered by Defense to Secure Walkers Release on Bail Ogden Oct 10 As a thrilling cli climax climax climax max to a day of sensations Mrs EarlS Earl EarlS arI arIS S Beers widow of ot the doctor on ac account account account count of whose w ose death Fred C Walker and Edward Lawrence are now facing a murder charge staggered from the witness stand after atter telling of the tho In Intimacy intimacy of her husband with Mrs Irs Fred C Walker and amI fell tell in a nead faint at this afternoon Seemingly a strange siringe prank of ot fate brought Miss Susie C Walker th sister of the principal de defendant defendant as one of ot the first to the thc aid of the stricken woman Mrs Urs Beers B ers was in a state of collapse as she stepped from the witness box The ordeal which she had undergone un had strained her nerves nerv s to to the break breaking breakIng breakIng ing point Sobbing ly Mrs Irs Beers was forced to tell in the crowded court room the details of her husbands infidelity With the recollection of the thc I tragedy fresh in her mind as a she re recalled recalled recalled called the incidents of her Iter husbands intrigue with Mrs Walker Walk r Mrs Beers shook with emotion and told with great difficulty of the events leading up to the violent death of Dr Beers Jeers By sheer will power Mrs Beers kept up her nerve until the lost although at several points it seemed as though she were about to break down Her condition finally grew so serious that Judge W I L Maginnis her attorney interfered in her behalf Attorney to the Rescue I think this has gone far enough he said As attorney for Mrs Beers I wish at this time to protest against this torture that she is undergoing Her physical phy cal condition is such that her system cannot stand the terrible or ordeal ordeal ordeal deal to which she is being subjected I would ask that she e given glen st It med medical medical medical ical examination to ascertain as as to t her present condition and if it can be proven that she is unable to stand the nervous strain I would ask that an ad adjournment adjournment adjournment be taken until such time Ume as she can stand this strain I Attorney Hutchinson said that he ho realized the condition of at the woman w man and that it was a hardship to be forced for ed to subject her to this examination However he felt that it was his duty to put before the court this evidence He was as satisfied that it would be sub lIb subjecting subjecting this woman to too much suffer sutTer suffering suffering ing to continue the examination fur Cur further further ther and he consented to her with withdrawal withdrawal withdrawal He asked an adjournment of cf court until next Tuesday morning which was granted Falls Fails in a Faint As A the spectators were leaving I the court room Mrs Irs Beels Beds pale and weak from the ordeal stepped from the thc stand and staggered toward her seat peat Just Justas as she reached it she dropped in ina ina ina a faint Her condition was somewhat Improved last evening Mrs IrS Beers BeeTs wilt will come to Salt Lake tomorrow to tJ rest until the hearing is resumed By the testimony of Mrs Beers Beem the defense hoped to show that Fred C Walker alker knew of the intimacy cy of his wife and Dr Earl C Beers and in jn that way to establish a justification justi cation for the homicide Almost the testimony ny given by Mrs Beers while she was wai on the stand was favorable to the th defense def nse in proving this fact Went ito Ogden at Mrs beers Beers Re Rc Rev Request v quest An important point p in the evidence of Mrs Beers was that Walker Valker had gone to Ogden at her request requests and that the tragedy that resulted was because of the fact that Mrs Beers declined to carry a message from Walker Valker to her husband and requested that he e go to see him personally It was also brought out that Mrs Walker had confessed her indiscretions to her ter 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 tamm s She went to the residence of ot Deputy Deput Sheriff J T Parley White and from there called up Mr Walker at the office of f tho the Cult Calt alt Lake Electrical Supply company It was at that conversation that she sh re requested requested requested quested Mr Walker Valker to come conic to Ogden to see her husband about abo t this matter He said he would prefer preter that she car carry carry carry ry a message to him but this she re refused refused refused fused to do Hope to Secure Bail The purpose of the defense in bring bringing bringIng bringing ing out the intimacy between Mrs Walker and the victim vl of ot the tragedy was not to prevent Fred C Walker alker from being held to the district court for trial but was submitted in iii order that some degree of justification of the crime might be established in order to form torm a n foundation for forthe the motion for Walkers admission to ball bail The intro introduction of testimony by the defense at this time would ordinarily be consid considered considered considered ered detrimental to its case but Walk Walkers Walkers Walkers ers health is such that his friends be believe l behove lieve hove that he should be given ghen his liber liberty liberty ty at all hazards f For the first time since the com Mm commencement m of tho time hearing Walkers I nerve failed him When the testimony showed the intimacy of his wife and the late Dr Beers ers the muscles of his face twitched Pie lie set his teeth hard harel and to keep his emotion motion in check e eck Groat Great tears welled up up and he burled buried his face tace in his hands and for tor the moment gave way to his sobs His sister Susie Walker Valker en n to comfort him and after a awhile awhile awhile while with a visible effort he ho sat st up in his scat seat again and although his face tace showed showell the signs of suffering he did not break down again Letters From Beers The defense attempted to introduce the correspondence between Mrs Mr Walk Walker alk alker er and Dr Beers including two letters from Dr r Beers to Mrs Irs Walker ValkEr but it was not formally received in trial Three of ot the letters were to Beers D erg from Mrs Irs Walker Valker the contents of which have already been made public The two from Dr Beers were weye written from front Ogden one on the day before the tho tragedy and the other two days before that One letter sent by b Dr Beers to Mrs Walker began beg n My Iy only darling Jo Josie Josie Josie sie and the other My I dearest Jock JosiV The endings were wera less poetic the th sig signatures signatures natures being Your lover Stinker Stink r rIn In the first letter Beers re regret regret regret gret that he had not seen her before she had bad left for tor Los Angeles He said that as soon as he could arrange mat matters matters matters he would be with her hor The other oth r letter appeared to have been a reply to toone toone toone one of hers in which she he asked him to come to her He said that he hJ h could not go at once Although he w will willing willing ing to make any sacrifice to be with her yet there th ro were some matters which he had to arrange before he went there Both letters Jetters were filled with en endearing endearing endearing dearing terms These letters were Introduced for tor comparison with the hotel register which Dr Beers had bad signed the he writ writing lug ing according to an expert who hown was sworn was identical in each Instance Decide D cide to Call Mrs Beers After considerable evidence tending to show the relations between Dr Beers and Mrs Walker alker was Introduced the court said that It would not receive any anymore anymore anymore more such evidence until it was shown that Walker had knowledge of such conduct The defense then put the proposition to the attorneys for the tho prosecution that they could choose whether or not they the wanted to receive the evidence as it was offered or per permit permit permit mit Mrs Beers to be called to connect up the preliminary A con consultation consultation consultation of ot the attorneys ensued and Judge Maginnis lIa who had been refused permission to assist In the case ease by the county attorney was called into con consultation consultation to assist In the present pre predicament predicament predicament in which h the county attorney and district attorney found themselves The result of a long conference was that Mrs Irs Beers took the stand and gave her testimony until she was on the tIme verge of collapse The reluctant story of the infidelity of Dr Beers as wrung from the reluctant lips liDS of the widow follows Mrs Beers Discusses Scandal With Walker Q Where were you OU on Sept 16 m mA A AOn On the day of September 1907 I was in Salt Lake City stopping with a friend Mrs J P White From Front her res residence residence Iden I telephoned to Mr Walker Valker about the little tittle trouble that had existed be between between between tween the Walker alker family and the Beers family I asked Mr Mc II Walker if he be had heard anything from Ogden He lie says Mrs Irs Beers I have heard that your our hus husband husband husband band and my wife wile were telephoning t to toone toone toone one another continuously I says It cannot be true He says It is true there is a conversation that was heard in which the doctor said I have hae made this week for or your our and my future happiness I said My God Mr Walker Valker can It be so 50 He said Yes You remember what I told you once to tell your our husband I says say Yes but r I think it would be better If It you should go there and tell toll him yourself Before that I had seen Mr Walker Valker at athis athis athis his store I simply Imply wanted to see Mr Ir Walker alker to see if it it was the truth that was going round That was all I wanted with Mr Walker alker Q Was that after the trouble over in inthe inthe Inthe the hotel after Mrs Walker alker had been up HP to Ogden City and had been In your husbands office after atter she had been at atthe atthe atthe the Healy hotel after she had been at atthe atthe atthe the other hotel hot l on the and after aCter she and the tIme doctor had been one night at the Hermitage A AYes Yes sir Q And you ou knew all those facts A AI I know them until the tele teis telephone tel phone message came from tram Salt Lake Both Were Heartbroken Q Did you and Mr Walker talk over these matters A ANo No sIre sir That was too delicate d a subject for either of us lis to discuss it We were too heartbroken over ov r it to think of at it Mrs Walker Had Confessed Mr Ir Walker Valker asked me If It we ever had any Intention of going to Los Angeles Angele I 1 said Yes sir we intended to go later on with a medicine company and I asked him if Mrs Irs Walker alker was going to stay star long He H said aid Four or five Continued on Page Pane 2 MRS BEERS fAINTS I 1 TELLING DOCTORS GUIlT I Continued From Page 1 months I said Do EDo you think that that Is a good plan He said Why she has made confession of all and antI I think she will be all right Q What did you say to Mr Walker alker about his coming up to see Dr Beers In Ogden OgdenA 1 A AI I said Mt Mr Walker dont you ou think It would be better for tor you to go up and see the doctor in person than I or writing it He said I have told him Mrs Beers what I mean to todo todo todo do on this subject Q Well what hat subject was It ItA A AIt It was the relation rel between his wife and my husband Q What did Mr Walker alker say sa to you OU about going to Ogden n to see your our hus husband husband husband band after you OU made that statement to him Want to See Beers A AMr AlIr Mr Walker says s Mrs Beers Deers I think It Is la right for you to write to your our husband and tell him what I 1 tell you to tell him I 1 says sas Mr Walker I wont do It Q You talked with Mr Walker over the phone from Ogden to Salt Lake City A AYes ATes Yes sir I did in Mr Lawrences office when I 1 first heard of the trou trouble trouble trouble ble Mr Lawrence Lawr nce and arid all his employee were there and they heard all that 1 I Isaid Isaid said 1 I asked Mr Walker Valker if Mrs Walk Valk Walker er or was with him I says Is Mrs Walk Valk Walker Walkr Valker er r over here I Before Defore that thal Mr Law Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence rence had called There was a note de delivered delivered livered to the doctor asking him him to please tell where Mrs Walker Valker was Q Now what was said eald by b you OU over oer the phone to Mr Walker A I simply asked ked Mr lIr Walker If It he had lad heard from Dr Beers DE ers and if Ir he thought there was anything In the scan scandal scandal dal dai that wag Wa going around us That was all aU I asked Mr Walker alker Q What was said by you about the scandal that was going around A I said I r did not believe it Q Believe what A A All of ot the talk You know as well as I do what was wa being said sald I The Hermitage Trip Q What was Was said by b you ou to Mr Wal Walter her ker ter at that time about your husband be beng beIng being Ing ng up at the Hermitage with Mrs Wal Walker al alker ker her all night nightA A I 1 said the doctor had told me at 12 on Sunday that he was going to Salt Lake Lak City and that he would re return return return turn on the tl e following night at 1230 He did not return I 1 told him and I know that he had been at the Hermitage until after his telephone call had come in inQ InQ InQ Q Then you OU told Mr Ir Walker alker that you then knew he had been at the Hermitage with Mrs Irs Walker Valker did you youA A I had heard It yes es sir The doctor told old me that at the hotel where we were rooming the Colonial that he was going to o Salt Lake City Q And you ou learned that he was not notA notA notA A I learn It until the next day Q What else did you OU communicate to tor ar Ir r Walker In reference to Dr Beers Beera and Mrs Irs Walker alker by phone A I told him the doctor told me inc he was going over to collect some money from rom Mr Black Dlack and I know any different until next morning I says saS I Ilont dont lont believe the doctor was up there I 1 dont know anything about it Prior to Mrs Beers Deers testimony the cir clr circumstantial evidence of the intimacy be between teen tween Dr Beers Deers and Mrs Walker had been introduced The letters and hotel register were introduced by the defense for tor or the purpose of identifying the sig signatures signatures signatures m natures Register In I n Evidence The register regist r at the European hotel was wall introduced In evidence and the clerk Russel H Harrison was called to the theland stand land He swore that on the evening of ot Sept 5 ii 1907 a man whom he Identified led fled through the picture published In The Herald Jerald this morning as Dr Earl S Beers Dee and a woman whom he identified by an another another another other newspaper picture as Mrs Fred C Walker alker came to the hotel Beers wrote on the register W Y W Yo Wallace Then hen he looked at her She nodded Jeers Beers added to the name on the register and lady Mrs Walker Valker made a gee gesture ture ure and he changed the lady to wife They occupied Room 35 The clerk thought that Mrs Irs Walker alker appeared nervous The register of the Fifth East hotel hotE 1 was Introduced in evidence and Mrs Beers Jeers was wa called to the stand a moment to identify the signature of ot Dr Beers Deers Beerson Deerson on the hotel register of ot April 1 I 1907 The signature was Dr Earl S Beers Deers and wife Mrs Mm 1011 Beers Beera said that the hand handwriting handwriting handwriting writing was that of her late husband Charles B proprietor of the Fifth East hotel of Salt Lake Identified the he page of the Fifth East hotel register as one |