Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-07-11 | Page 8 | Echo of the Beers Tragedy

ECHO OF THE BEERSJRAGEOY SALT LAKE, July 10. The latest matrimonial surprise to emanate from Farmlngton, the hotbed of marriage surprises, comes in tho announcement announce-ment of the marriage of Don R. Dlx, a Jeweler emploed by the Weil Jewelry Jew-elry company of Sait lake, and Mrs. Josephine Walker, divorced wife of Fred C. Walker, vice prlsedent and general manager of the Salt Lake Electrical Supply company. Mr. and Mrs. Dix are livlns at the Avalon i'parfnients. Third South and Second East streets. In the ' marriage of Mrs ' Walker there Is an echo of the tragedy at Ogdpn, September IS, ;y07, In which Earl S. Beers, a charlatan phsiclan. known as the "boy phenomenal,'' suf ltred physical Injuries nt the hands of Fred C. Walker, tram which he died two days later. At the trial 01" Walker it developed that Beers had broken up his home, and although held under a charge ol murder, the 'unwritten law" pl..ed a prominent part and Walker was subsequently1 acquitted The ease was of such a sentimental nature that it fnlrly rocked Salt Lake and Ogcien society and reverberated through the state. It was clearlv established as the ! case began to unfold that relations ' between Mrs. Walker and Beers from the time they met in Salt Lake. where ; Beers had a wife, until a few das before Beers received the terrlbie beating from which he died, were of a nature which could not be toleratr-d by a self-respf-cting husband, and ox-asperated ox-asperated Walker to a slate of frenzy fren-zy which prompted the fatal assault. A few days before Beers was called I to answer lor his part in the lalason, Mrs. Walker had been sent to Los Angeles by her ht:3bund that she might be removed from the seeming hypnotic Influence of the Itinerant doctor," but sn firm' was the hold which BcerH seamed to have on her that she wrote him endearing letters from California, In which she declared that he was her soul's nfflnity.