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Brother in the Lockup? Candy Lost in the WoodsBy TOM COPE(Third of a serlas)Winlhrop Rockefeller tried to help, hit Ihere was rotting he could do. Dp Wilt Weatterby, owner of llic Silver Dollar Club si Buchanan, a Georgia ham-lei Sfl miles due vvest of Atlanta, would have to go In the pen (or murder.Mr. Weather-by was one of the U brothers and sisters of Candace Grace We a t It c i b v Johnson Mossier, trie lady CQ|K n o w w i lt;1 cl jr-known as Candy, who is scheduled lo no on trial for her life in Miami ne.xl otonlh for Ihe I9GI murder of her millionaire htishand, Jacques Mcislcr.On a certain night in 1936 a dice game and a SllintU poker party were going on in the Silver Dollar. There was a!.‘o a good deal of hcor drinking. At a certain point Mr. Woathnby found a bone lo pick with a customer (Mrs. Mossier described him in an interview simply as the president of (hr Haralson County Farm Bureau”) tn the kitchen of the nightclub.Witnesses said Mr. Weeth-erby whipped out * .38-calber pistol and shot the firmer it close rinse, thrie limes.La'er, he claimed the mm had been eonvng et him with i knife. The witnesses said It was flet-eul murder.(Oddly, on the night following ll»e shading the Silver Dollar burned lo the ground.)Sister Candy, by this lime firmly established as a Texas millionaire s wife and business associate, believed her brother and did not get too excited. When UeWilt was indicted by the grand jury tor first-degree murder she still figured he’d get away with I lie self defense argument.She attended every day of the trial, attracting consider-(Tum To CANDY. Pg. 3).vr/innv cn r c t/i om
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Fort Pierce News Tribune
Fort Pierce, Florida, US
Wed, Dec 29, 1965
Page 13
Full Page
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