Show MURDER MU nE nl TRIAL l OPENS AGAIN IN Millionaire Former Secretary and Jurors Recover From Flu Attacks HILLSBORO Ore March 16 IG Associated As As- The Fress-The Press The scythe of or illness ill UI ness nes stayed the Bowles murder trial trW reopened here today todar The defendants Nelson C. C Bowles Portland millionaire and Miss Mis Irma Loucks formerly of Salt Lake his former secretary had bad fully recovered reco from a mild mUd attack of 0 influenza ashad as ashad had bad the five Jurors whose Illness caused postponement of the case CC last week Bowles and his young joung secretary are charged with slaying Mrs hits Leone Bowles prominent in Portland's social socIal so so- cial circles last Jut November 12 Ray Shoemaker court reporter who ho took detailed statements from the defendants defendant'S both before and after Continued 00 on P PAre e Two J BOLES BOWlES MURDER TRI TRIAL l OPENS AGAIN Continued from rue raze One their arrest and whose notes include statements taken from others Involved In in the investigation of Mrs Bowles' Bowles stabbing was the first state witness today He continued reading sections of transcripts under the direction of George Mowry prosecutor It was his Ills third day on the stand The state was by his testimony to build up its first degree murder from the very ery words of the defendants When cross examination cross examination started the defense sought by excerpts from the same statements to support its contention Mrs Bowles was not murdered murdered mur mur- dered but the knife was driven into her heart by her own hand in a fit of ot frenzy when she learned her hus husband husband band had been unfaithful She died In the kitchen of Miss Loucks' Loucks apart apart- ment Bowles and Miss Loucks were with her |