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Show the frequent trips made to the safety dep.rit box after the death of her husband, it appeared that there was a standing order to allow Clarence Walker. In r son, to open the box. The trii'ik was removed by young Walker while accompanied to the bank by John E. Bennett, chief counsel for the Walker family. Bennett is a re.-U"iit of San Frandjco and Is looking after the Interests of the estate there. K-.r some reason, Mr Bennett wanted l hi.; correspondence, these old check stuhc and the.e old bills marked paid, so the truuk was securely fastened and shipped away. After It was wired and sealed Mr.". ' Walker has no personal knowledge of I what became f it. it wn all confusion con-fusion at the house, she said, and she did uot know whether the box was I shipped ,,r not She declared she had ' not -ct-n it. The contents might have ' b.-.-n taken out and th- trunk packed I vvlili other goods and shipped away. I When the ht-aring adjourned at. noon Mr. De took up the list of bonds and ' slocks mentioned in the affidavit ami Cues! mn.-rl Mrs Walker in regard to ' them. S'le admitted thai she held somo Western Pacific bond?, but de- I rlare, that h-r husband bad iven them to h.-r some time U'fore his i death. Everything he held in her Ksse.csion. she said, her husband gave ! her. During her examination Mrs. Walker was roniellcd to use smelling salts to stand the ordeal. She appears ap-pears to be extremely nervous, and on the verge of collapse,-being unable to rememi.er dates and a number of other things which occurred since her husband's death. of an Injunction resi raining her from removing any property of the estate out of I'tah. Attorney C. C. Dey talked on the trial of a trunk at the heating this morning before Charles W. Baldwin, Bald-win, master In chancery of the United States district court. After tracinc it from the safety deposit box in the I'tah Savings & Trust company to the Walker residence at i:!i1 East South Temple street, be lost It. Among some household ffels which were packed and .-hipped t" San Franc.,co by freight, he found .-ct nt of It aRain and there learned something of lis contents. con-tents. Mrs. Walker's faulty memory made a close examination of it almost Impossible, however, b it Attorney Levins Lev-ins a fairly good description of Ii. This trunk Is s'nall. made of datk stained wood, heavily strapped with 11 etal. Wh.-n It was removed from tin- sal'ctv deposit box it was only locked with a spring lock. After It was taken to the South Temple street resilience, H was said to b seab-d and locked again. According to the lest I-rnoiiv I-rnoiiv so far all this little old trunk wi ich bail Loon in the family a Ion.; time, contained were s.une business letters of Mr. Walker's, some correspondence corre-spondence of Mr.'. Walker, of no Importance, Im-portance, a score of old worthless check stubs and some receipts for bills that had been paid. Yet Mr. Dey brought out the fact that Clarence Walker, a son, ami a man employed to help iiek the household good, spent .ome time making this trunk as securely fastened as a treasure chest. The trunk made Us appearance In the Walker will contest case this morning while Attorney I ley was carrying car-rying on a searching examination of 'Mrs. Walker In regard 10 her affidavit filed wnio time ago. In which she denies de-nies that she removed from the state bonds, stocks, notes nnd securities valued at $S0'i,"ii'i, which belonged to the estate. While asking her about 01 THE TRA'L OF LOST IRUI SALT LAKE, Dec. VI. In the cross- , examination of Mrs. Allhea Walker, j widow of I). F. Walker, who Is charged charg-ed with contempt uf court In violation |