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umy solution.Witness Says He Saw Person Uesemhl. Powers Leave Night Mossier Was KilledmgMIAMI, Fla. (AP) _ A broadcast executive testified Wednes-day he saw a man with a similarity” to Melvin Lane Powers leave the governor's lodge apartments the night Jacques .Mossier was murdered there.Marvin Tavel, general manager of Radio Station WOAH, said the man was dressed in riarx slacks and a dark shirt and wore his hair down to his shirt collar in the back.Defense Alty. Percy Foreman moved for a mistrial. The motion was denied, aftcr Asst. Slate Ally. Arthur HuUoe showed l'avel a picture of Pow-ers from police files taken shortly after the killing.The witness testified that there was a similarity between the man in the pictures and the one he saw in the apartment house.Powers, who js charged with his aunt, Candace Mossier, with plotting the murder of her wealthy husband, wore bis hair ong at that time, June 30, 1964. He now has a shorter cut.Mrs. Robert Arone, red-haired former model, testified (hat she left the apartment building\Om . 1 - ¥£,.«, blocks b, , re4S:(hoi.ght sh. recogoiMd RiltlM ‘ MpS ’° awilder. Mrs. Mossier** «lau«hl cu ...ter, in the car, and some of Mrs ' ran outside, she said, andfh°5ucri5 adoptcd chi^a injwas a,‘’,° ?e Mlcndthe back seat. was Mossier s speed away wilhShe returned In is minutes, JSl ,K°Ut:,Wh.enl ,h* Mr Pl,efl Mrs. Arone said, and was JiLi . ,cad'?8 oIf ,h«preparing for bed when she' « .k r the lt;frivcrheard a dog bark frantically in ,urned 0n lhe she said,the Mossier apartment.She walked out on her balco ny, she said, and heard the sounds ofsounds of a scuffle, a cry of lh® and heard Eddie.vlhat to mp. and a J1PU dor,'{ want us lotnilH Than (Ka a;j .L . I 1 LrlP XTrC TVirr rnM .L . ■* IAt 4:30 a.m., Mrs. Durr said she saw Mrs. Mossier and on© of her adopted sons. Eddie, in the hallway and heard Eddiethud. Then she said she heard footsteps going down the stairs. Mrs. Mossier says she was intell?'* Mrs. Durr said she did not hear the reply,- ---- sue was in The state contends that Pow-Jackson Memorial Hospital that ers drank scotch in a Miami bar mgm getting treatment for aiat fool of the causeway'cad. r.eaoacne and returned to lhei,nS to Key Biscayne. went to the apar mcnt with the chi.dren apartment to kill .Mossier, then about 4 am. to fmd the body of.drov'c *o the airport in a repos-•er wealthy, 69 year-old hus-i*«sed car owned by the Mos-sler company,ter%£SL?!riJ!!nter 0.fi, Ti,e slate says Pow«« e*m ak on xl ifi* aj,a,I:,bark. Houston. Tex., thatS*ta? .JJkcxSd is?*, rfrr*':eaving ,he car wi,hlt; m hi-a KArriKu 1:40s his fingerprints at Miami Inter-*,m’ a horrible scream and national Airport. ■dm1*1IB ,W
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Danville Register
Danville, Virginia, US
Thu, Feb 03, 1966
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