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Show BLAST DEATH TRIAL OPENED Insurance Man Is Charged With Fake Explosion to Conceal Crime. GREELEY, Colo . Nov. 23. (By International In-ternational News Service ) Five state witnesses were heard in district dis-trict court here late today In the trial of Albert J. Lowe,' Greeley Insurance man, charged with the murder of li ls wife's 2 2-y ear-bid sister. Edna Fern skinner, of Bloominffton, in., whose dad body was found frightfully lm.-n-J and showing so .'9r.1l (rashes and ugly wounds about the face and head, on the kitchen floor or Lowe's homo hero Sunday inornlnp July 2 last A jury was finally sworn In shortly short-ly after 3 o'clock, after more than a weeks effort) during whlcii tune s;-eral s;-eral panels were exhausted EXPERTS SUMMONS D. District Attorney Reed declared in his opening charge that tho state would produce witnesses to disprove the repeated statements of the de-j fendant that Alias Skinner came to her death as the result of 'i gasoline stove explosion. Itced s-iid that medical testlmonv will be presented by the state to show that the girl's death was caused by a skull fracturi inflicted by some blunt instrument that had been wielded n great force. i Reed toM the jury that the prose CUtlon will Introduce "explosion experts" ex-perts" and others familiar with gasoline gaso-line stoes to prove that the stoo did not explode at all. Reed contended to the Jury that instead in-stead of an explosion of the stove occurring, oc-curring, the girl was struck down by some heacv Instrument, and that gasoline gaso-line waa then applied to the body to i conceal the ral cause of death, and charged that the crime was mothar-i mothar-i ed by a desire on the part of the defendant de-fendant "to procure Insurance money i carried upon the deceased by this ' defendant in the sum of $2300 " Tho first witness called was L. L. Stlmson. who explained diagrams o: the scene of the girl's death. DAUGHTER TESTIFIES. Clara Lowe. 13-year-old daughter of the defendant, was the next wltnr Her testimony was In conflict with that of John Bradford, who followed her on the stand Thn girl swurc that the door between the kitchen and n-ar porch of the Lowe home was not on its hinges when she left the house for Sunday school at 9:30 o'clock. Bradford testified that shortly after j 10 o'clock, when he heard screams In I. owe kitchen, he found the door properly swinging on Its hinges. The state's contention was that the door had bun placed after Lowe's family had left the house In order to th" house In'o the ,atchB Tin- trial will in- resuifl |