Show WALKER CHEERFUL ON EVE ErE OF TRIAL I FOR BEERS KILLING KILLINGi Q HH I a i r rr rI I r ri H I I le I Ia IFRED I i a H FRED C WALKER He will wi be placed on trial at Ogden tomorrow charged with the murder of Dr Earl S Beers of Walkers Wife of On the eve of ot the trial for his life Fred C Walker alker accused of the murder of Dr Earl Erl S Beers In Ogden on Sept Sept IS 18 last Is lii II In better spirits than he has been at atan any an time since his incarceration in the Ogden Jail jan For a time Walkers health was seriously impaired by the confinement and It was feared that his reason reason was be becoming becoming coming unbalanced Since that time his physicians have forbade any ay conversation with him concerning the crime with which he is charged even with wit his lawyers and andas andas anda as a a result he seems to worry less and his health has materially improved The murder trial rial will wi open at Ogden to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow morning at 10 before Judge Howell Howel Walker will wi be bo defended by Attorney W V II It H Hutchinson of Salt Lake and Judge Horn Hor of Ogden The Tho prosecution will wl be conducted by District Attorney George Geore Halverson and Judge W WL WL WL L Maginnis who has been retained by relatives of Dr Beers as a special prose prosecutor prosecutor prosecutor Hulls Huls In Ogden Although Edward Lawrence Lwrence is charged charge jointly with wih Walker Walk r with the tho commission of the murder the trials will wi be separate Walkers trial coming first In case Walker Valker Is acquitted acquited there is little ques question question tion ton but bt that the case cae against Lawrence will viIi wi be dismissed At the preliminary hearing held in October much pf the testimony testimony testimony mony of or the prosecution was W revealed The he star str witnesses for tor the state tte are ae Mrs rs Gertrude Hull Huil Hul and her daughter Bertha Hull Hul They were reported to have been missing a few days ago but they the have now been ben located and were brought to Ogden ast Jast Jat evening at 6 and wilt will wi remain In Ogden until after their test testimony test mony is 15 taken The murder for which Walker Valker will wit be bl blon beon on trial tomorrow is alleged to have hae been committed on Sept Sept IS last In the rear room of the Ogden branch of ot tho Salt Lake Electrical Supply company On that occasion Dr Earl S Beers and Fred C Walker quarreled and as a result of the quarrel Beers was so seriously Injured that he hp died a few days later Lawrence Lwrence according to the case that the state stale hopes hope tp to present aided Walker Valker in a plot to en entire enUce tire Uce Beers Ber Into Int the place for the purpose of besting beating him Began in Salt Lake The trouble out of ot which the altercation sprang was of brief duration Fred Fed C Walker and his wife became acquainted at the Lenox hotel in Salt Sal Lake with Dr Drand Drand Drand and Mrs Beers about the middle of Aug August August August They became friendly about Sept I 1 and went out together to the theatres and to the summer r resorts Mrs Irs Walker Valker be he became became came fascinated with the young oung doctor dotor Unknown to Walker Valker they went about to together together gether other and on Sept 9 made a trip to the Hermitage which was the tie direct cause of the tragedy Walker was first Informed of the In Intrigue intrigue trige a few tew days before he fore the tragedy by Mrs Mr Beers who told him of ot the Hermit Hermitage age trip As A a result result Walker Walk r sent his wife to Los Ls Angeles hoping in this thi man manner manner manner ner to get her out from under the evil In Influence 11 fluence of ot the doctor In another con conversation conversation I Mrs Beers Bers urged Walker to go goto got goto to t Ogden to see Beers and to dissuade him I from pursuing Mrs Mr Walker with his at attentions I and from wrecking his home hom Before leaving Salt Lake Walker called caled caledon on Chief of Police McKenzie to learn if I there were not some way Wa to prevent Beers Beer from following Mrs Walker Valker to Los is Ls An Angeles Angeles Angeles geles The chief gave him a letter leter to De Do Detective Detective Dick Shannon who was then In Ogden asking the officer to endeavor to persuade Beers to cease cee the liaison lason he had lad formed fored with Mrs Walker Valker Story of the Tragedy At Ogden Edward Lawrence Lwrence manager of ot the Ogden Oden branch of the Salt Sal Lake Electrical ElectrIc Supply company asked Dr Beers to call at the office to see se Walker Valker Beers did so 10 and all al three men went In Inthe Inthe inthe the rear to talk over oer the matter mater The conversation led up to an encounter in which Beers Beer was wa badly worsted He was taken aken to an Ogden hospital where he ho aft afterwards aft afterwards died as the result of ot a fractured skull received during the struggle The Tho arrest of Walker Valker and Lawrence followed The coroners jury did not attempt to fix the blame for the homicide but after a preliminary hearing they were held beld for trial The motive for tor the homicide Is the tho tb old one of ot an Infuriated husband wrought up by jy the destruction of his home under the he statutes of Utah if this fact can te to established the homicide will probably be considered justifiable This law Is a pe peculiar peculiar peculiar culiar one and Utah is one of ot the few states state where the unwritten law Is rec recognized by legislative enactment enactment Walker and d dA A comparison of tho the lives of the alleged murderer and ad his victim is Interesting Walker Valker was w a quiet business man some something something something thing of a recluse He lie le had nad ha few associates and passed the greater gater portion of hIs hla time outside of business hours with his wife we and his little daughter Beers on the theother theother theother other hand was wa fond of or society He lie was energetic and brIght right though somewhat unscrupulous He lie began In Salt Sal Lake with wih a legitimate practice as an osteopath but jut last lat summer became connected with a traveling raveling medicine show and was wa adver advertised advertised as a the Boy Bo Phenomenal the blood bloodless bloodless less ess surgeon Fred Fd C Walker Valker was born bor in California years ago His parents were pIoneer pioneers of Utah coming across the plains by jy ox team They lived in Salt Lake for fora fora a a L time and went to California shortly shorty before the birth of ot Mr Mt n Walker Valker They re returned returned turned to Salt Lake when he was a child As A a it boy he worked as a bell bel boy by at the Templeton hotel When he ho was wa sixteen years old he secured a position with the Sl Salt Lake Electric Supply company Aft After Af After er a years work as an apprentice he was made foreman He worked for tor three years rears as s foreman and was as then made su superintendent superintendent of the concern Eighteen months ago when the retail retal and wholesale wholesale whole wholesale sale branches of the company comp y were segre sese L A gated Walker alker was made manager of or the retail and contract departments department In his business Walker Valker was known as a ahard ahard ahard hard and ad tireless worker R W V NIcol proprietor of the company compan gives to Walker Valker much of the credit for the Im Immense Immense immense mense business that has baa ha been built buit up in inthe Inthe inthe the past pst few years ear Walkers habits habis were exemplary exemplar He lie le kept In excellent condi condition condition tion ton through daily daly gymnasium exercise and though small smal in stature was wa a man manof manot manof of ot excellent physique This quality accounts for the victory he secured over Dr Beers Bers in the fatal encounter Walker Valker was married eight years rear ago He was very devoted to his wife ife and their happiness was w unmarred until they the met Dr Beers Bees There Is one child Dor Dorothy Dorothy Dorothy othy Carrol Walker Valker 7 years er old who is almost almot idolized by the father rather The child went to Ogden yesterday and passed sev several eral cral trl hours hour with wih her father Beers From Good Family Dr Beers Ber came from a a family of good standing in Kearney Kearne Neb where he was ws reared Jared He graduated from the S S Still Sti School of Osteopathy at Des Moines olnes His college record was good and ho he stood well wel In the class s In which he ho graduated c Shortly Shorty after his graduation he married a Denver woman and went wont to Trinidad Colorado Colordo to practice At that place he hemet hemet met mat Retta Kahn a young oung woman of ot Jewish parentage On account of the doctors fondness for tor the society of other women omen the relations with wih his wife became somewhat strained Later she went to Denver where she Is said to have se secured secured secured cured a divorce After her departure from Trinidad the affair of the doctor with Retta Rett Kahn be become become become come more serious They attempted at to elope but were stopped by the officers at Glenwood Springs and Miss Kahn was wa taken to her he home In Trinidad TinIdad Dr Beers Beer went on to Ogden and a few months la Ia later later ter Miss Iss Kahn I hn came to Ogden where they were married marred two years ears ago Other love lo affairs of the doctor have have been reported Twice It is said Beers was shot at nt while In Nebraska and once In a hotel In Denver all al three occur occurrences ocr occurrences the heart resulting from different affairs of In Salt Sal Lake Dr and Mrs Irs Beers lived at various downtown hotels They enter entertained entertaIned tamed a great geat deal and were popular with those of the circle cIrce In which they moved |