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IKman 011U t«ti oeauntui it h* Is asking you certain qje*. tions.Foreman elicits from Peggy Fletcher a fact that she may have naively hoped would be overlooked—that her name now is Mrs. Robert Arone. that she was married recently for the second lime. It is not an lm-porlant fact, really. It’s just that—oh, dear.“Tins whole thing is very dis. tasteful lo me! I’eggy say s. suddenly, for no clear reason. She’s all choked up. I hope when it’s over we’ll be able lo forget all about ill By “we she means herself and her husband Robert,.a swarthy, chunky, goodlooking somebody who has accompanied her to Ihli unwanted appointment with notoriety.Mrs. Arone told a straightforward story about the night of Jacques Mossler’s murder, in June, 1954. She had an 8:30 to 5 job and she was living in the select Governors lxdgc apartments cr. Key Biscnyne. Her second-Poor Hat was across Ihe hall from the one taken a couple of months earlier by the Mosslers.On this night, June 30, about 1:30 a.m., she testified, the heard a dog barking frantically—* most unusual sound and she went out lt;n her balcony. She hoard the noise o* a scuffle and a distinct thud coming from the- “* mi tk-auitiony, causing her to trip cm her tongue or eliciting answers lhal just didn't add up. Peggy interrupted herself constantly. “I’m a little confused myself at this point, she would say, or You have me terribly confused at this lime! or I don’t understand all the confusion about this’’— and In ihe end, when Clyde Wcody took over the cross on behalf of his client Candy- Me*, sler — This is ridiculous, really!What wss ridiculous’’ was the fact that though she had moved inlc the apartment the last week In May, Peggy testified she was unpacking” Ihe nlghl before Ihe murder, at the end of June. She didn't want to explain whfll she was unpacking from, and the judge told her she didn't have to. Aflcr that she was scot back to her Robert.With Mrs. Arone, as wlfh Ihe other seven witnesses pro-dueed by the state by last night, the defense tried to show that millionaire hanker Mossier was aurnnmded by a coterie of harwsome young men—tfet he was * sex pervert and could have been murdered by * homosexual. The first witnesses were those first on the scene—the familyr PL-CRASHHernando County hospital. Hie
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Fort Pierce News Tribune
Fort Pierce, Florida, US
Thu, Feb 03, 1966
Page 10
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