Close-up of windows of the house of W. H. Bowers in Los Angeles. The photograph was taken in the course of a court proceeding in which his wife, Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers, was accused of plotting to poison him with her friend Elmer M. Archer. Olive Bowers used window shade signals to let Archer know if her husband was at home or not. The poison plot was overheard on the 2-party telephone line.
A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Bowers appears with the article "Bride Denies Murder Plot; Says Plan to Poison Husband Was Only Joke; Man Confesses Part After Phone Talk Heard; Husband and Pastor Will be Questioned Today," Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1926