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x-Stit'llConnally OrdersPowers ExtraditionAUSTIN (AP) — Gov. John ConnalJy ordered today the extradition of Melvin Lane Pow-ers to Florida, where*Powers if charged with the stabbing death of Houston millionaire Jacques Mossier.Connally’s order is based on a July 28 bearing on the Florida request.Powers’ lawyers are expected to try to ftaU execution of the order by seeking a court order freeing Powers. If a district court refuses to free him, an appeal would have to await return of the Court of Criminal Appeals Oct 5 from a summer recess.Powers, 27, of H o u s t o n, is charged in Miami in the June 30 death of Mossier, », Pow-•I- v*. — n • Iman of Houston, questioned al length a Houston identification man and Manson Hill, chief of detectives of the Miami sheriffs department, about evi -dence allegedly placing Powers in Florida on the day of Moss-ler’s death.rialRb:Aviafmsnm.etiupLaCewa
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Del Rio News Herald
Del Rio, Texas, US
Fri, Aug 21, 1964
Page 5
Full Page
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Ronald S.
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