Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-12-22 | Page 24 | Friends Welcome Fred C. Walker

I FRIENDS UE II FREBJJIALKEfl IH Many Congrafulnlc Him Upon III flie Outcome of His IS FINIS CHRISTMAS GIFT fl FOR HIS AGED MOTHER 19 Walker At Once Will Resume If His Work With His Old III Km pi oyer. IH A mother rejoiced Saturday evening InH ' bcr home nr. 1100 l-'irst avenuo be- JHH cause a .inn- of twolvc men had given BH back bcr son, Krcd C. Wallcor. a free flfij man, and exonerated him from all jjffi blame for hilling Dr. Karl S. Beers Scp-t Scp-t ember IS. Practically on Christmas Oi pvo Mrs. Caroline. Walker stood in the KM courtroom at Ogdcn and anxiously lis- 3H tailed to the reading of the verdict, IK which meant freedom or imprisonment I- -or cveu worse to ner boy. .She returned with him from Ogdcn Saturday afternoon at. 2 o'clock over the Denver & Rio Grande. A number of friends accompanied them and ma 113' more wore at tho station to welcome Walker and extend their congratulations. congratula-tions. All day long friends gathered "t the side of mother and son wishing ti:em a happy Christinas and expressing express-ing their approval of the vcrdicr. "This is the best Christmas present .1 ever had." said Mrs. Walker Saturday Satur-day night, as she sat at a table across from her son. the happiest woman in t'tnli. 'There was only one man on he jury 1 lint did not join right away with the rest, and he was the only one that- was not married. There wore doveii married men and they under-Fairnoss under-Fairnoss of Press. Mr. Walker stated that the press, both at Ogden and Salt Lake, had treated him with fairness that he docp-lv docp-lv appreciated. Me said the ordeal through which he had gone enabled hint to distinguish his true friends, and Mint not in a single instance had ono who represented friendship before September Sep-tember IS disappointed him afterward. "My friends have stayed bv me loyally loy-ally and 1 shall never forget their faithfulness, Tho confinement was hard ! bear; T suffered more from that than from the uncertainty of the trial. Tf ii had not been for the letters, messages mes-sages and visits of my friends I would have found the conlihemeul extremely hard to eudure. I "My brother. Will, came from California Cali-fornia at the opening of the trial and will leave for his home Sunday. Mr. Xidio) also came on the lirst ilav and Hayd to the last. My mother cnine up v-hen the trial opened and has been "vith me 'ever since.' . Mr. Wiilker. in speaking of her experience ex-perience in the eourtrooin. gaid she did not like to stay when the prosecution was presenting its i-tise. "I always srt nervous when the prosecution was questioning witnesses. " said the moth , rr. whoso years number 73, ''and T didn't like to stay. When the defense vas doing the questioning it wns all When asked if ho felt anv uncertainly uncer-tainly as he stood facing the' bar before be-fore the verdict was road. .Mr. Walker said, "I knew what the only just verdict ver-dict could be." , Mr. Walker said he would continue with his business just- the same as lie had before his arrest. "1 will be found m my desk Monday morning," and it. was not the words that spoke the pleasure pleas-ure he felt in being able to return to hi! business again a free man. Mr. Walker is vice-president, of the Walt Lake Electric Supply company.