Show SLAYER OF OEmS FREED BY JURY Killing of Home Wrecker by Salt Lake Man Declared to be Justifiable Homicide Two Men Engaged In Fist Fight Dr Beers Being So Severely Beaten By an Enraged Husband That Death Resulted Ogden Fred Walker who has been on trial for the murder of Dr Earl S Beers September 18 became a freeman free-man Friday night at 1016 oclock when the jury returned a verdict of not guilty Two ballots were taken the first resulting In eleven for acquittal ac-quittal and one for conviction Edward Lawrence Is still In jail It I Is said however that In view of the I result of the Walker trial the case against Lawrence may be withdrawn The crime for which Walker has been on trial was the murder by beatIng beat-Ing ot Dr Earl S Beers whom the defendant claimed had been intimate with Mrs Walker In the rear room or the store of the Electric Fixture and Supply company on the morning of September 18 A meeting had been arranged between Walker and Beers and upon the arrival of the latter the fatal battle commenced Beers died at the Ogden general hospital September Septem-ber 20 Walker gave himself up to the chief of police at Salt Lake City the same day Edward Lawrence who was present at the fight was arrested ar-rested a few days later and made codefendant co-defendant |