Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!clarinews From: clarinews@clarinet.com (anderson/cfrb-ckfm) Newsgroups: clari.canada.general Subject: Bowers: (Toronto) It's been a tough day on the stand for a witness at Keywords: canadian broadcast, legal investigations, legal Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 90 21:25:35 GMT Lines: 19 Approved: clarinews@clarinet.com Location: canada ACategory: regional Slugword: bowers Priority: daily Format: daily ANPA: Wc: 202; Id: z3136; Sel: cnnli; Adate: bowers-420pes Codes: jnlidcn. Note: Bowers:420pes (Toronto) It's been a tough day on the stand for a witness at the Julie Bowers murder trial in Toronto. Joanne Collins claims she saw an empty baby seat in Bowers' car before the child was reported missing in January of 1988. The 11-month-old boy was later found frozen to death in a snowbank near Kincardine, Ontario.. The lawyer for Julie Bowers is trying to punch holes in the testimony of Joanne Collins. He's been trying to get Collins to clarify exactly what she saw in the parking lot...where Bowers told police her son was kidnapped while she was doing some banking. Under gruelling cross examination, Collins couldn't remember the color of the car seat or what Bowers was wearing that day. Collins' testimony has been filled with ``I Don't know'' and ``I can't remember''...prompting the defence lawyer to suggest that she is purposely hiding the facts. The jury has also been told that Collins waited nearly two years before telling her story to police.