Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-11-28 | Page 4 | Suspicions of Fire Chief Told

SUSPICIONS OF FIRE CHIEF TOW j Testifies Against Man Who Said Stove Blast Killed Woman ! GREELEY, Colo.. Nov. 28 Weeks ! before Bert J. Lowe, now on trial in district court here for the murder of his slt-fr r in law. Edna Fern Skinner, j was arrested, Fire Chief C. P. Chet-wood Chet-wood of this city wan suspicious ol Lowe's story that she caiue to her death as the result of the explosion of a Rasoline stove in Lowe's home, Chetwood testified in district court I here Monday afternoon. His suspicions, he said. were aroused by the existence of a pool of blood under the head of the jclrl as she lay, terrlbl burned and dead on the floor of the kitchen. Because of his suspicions, he said, he wont to the Lowr- liomi on Sunday. June 3, the day the Klrl was killed, and examined tho pasoline stove alleged to have exploded. explod-ed. Then, he testified, ho wont with Chief of Police Florence of Greeley, to a local undertaking establishment where they viewed the bodv of the victim. HALTED BY JUDGE Chetwood. continuing his story, was beginning to recite the account ol a visit he said he made to the sheriff's ofHc" here, when the court halted him, ruling that his testimony along ithls line was improper at this stage' I of the trial. Chetwood declared he remembered j ; distinctly that the door between the Bleeping porch and the kitchen of the 'home was on its hinges and that It1 I WSJ obstructed from being opened by a kitchen cabinet which was placed against it. He testified he saw the tank which I had been on the gasoline stove, in-i volved in the case, in the Lowe home.1 and thai it eontained about a quart of I t.isoline and had not been torn apart, i as by an explosion NO BLOOD ON CLOTHES In response to questions as to : whether they saw any blood on Lowe's clothes or anywhere except under the! girl's head, both Chetwood and Flor- j nnce answered in the negative. Hoth witnesses testified that Lowe said when he heard his sister-in-law scream he rushed to the kitchen and saw flames pouring out of the itOVe. ' They declared Lowe said he made two unsuccessful attempts to extinguish extin-guish the flames and to reach Miss Skinner's; body.