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♦w.imj to ilc owjy with Mr. Mossier.Dkiit ilto Slid that Met ami Candy would otten spend time liucinj the day Id one of the trailers that were used at etira HvJng quarters on the ranch and' that Diehl and hit wife (row estranged. then lftewfte employed by the Mossier*) would find the trader in i mess, withthe bodt disturbed and dirty towels all over the place. Once, ho said, “we even found a (de-lcled) an the floor.ThroughtU Urt* direct testimony and th? subsequent hours of ercsi-mminiUon by Fore-mao. Mela chief dchodcr, and Clyde Woxiy, Candy's legal knight. Powers watched the jury, Ms aawyer, the wilaess and the jidge by turns, and occasionally stole glances at the press glhery. At times he seemed alnost gloating, at other times be tent Ms head and ran his tongue over Mo big teeth i under tight-pressed, almost liver dark lips.Though ha got soma damaging admission! out ot Dlthl-wh« sild avarybody’s anlitlad lo coo alias whan admitting Ho Had mida • fang-uiifanca caff as Mr. Irown — Foramin was wnbla t0 ahale* up »a wihiess or trap him ;« a fit. He had Hkcvr.se failed lo crock the other accuser of Mel Powers — 40-year-old Freddie DtAaxt. a dark-skinned Negro woaring dense sunglasses (because ot a weak eye and on air ,of seml-iiojectcd puzriejner.1.I Dbhail said he hid diseased •he perfect murder with Powers al a Houston serr.ee sta-lion where he worked, but that Mossier1* Mai bad tcvar come up. !f« said Powers offered him , $3.SW to make a hit” which br had to exjdain meant to have i* «y knocked off. and then 1 again later, offered him SlO.WO.To alt rf which Duhart «id hereptied, No way ... there's no way.ITvrs was after he had told Powers It would be a cinch to make a hit in Texas and (hen lafce the body to Mexico and You give one them guys JM or *1CC they'd bur/ the tody wmcwfceres, anywhere, it us asft-heap or dow n la a volcano . . . nobody In the world would ever know. .Ouhart, who admitted twice teing convicted of a crime, was asked if he himself bad done “nancUuivg like that «i occa-j.on’ In ■ startled, almost hurt vcirc. the witness rcpticd, No, man II was tht slxlet.iih, and iha stormiest. hotMil diy at Uva trial and It cpanad with a icana worthy ef Iha wlldnt TV departure from classical wort routine. This was when, after dnperalt eftorts by Iha dcfinsa lo prevent It, Prosecular On ruin ,nd hit qulal, thorough asslsfaat, Arthur Hulloe, raad Iha transcript of a le-ig dislince phone converse Hon.TV talk was a monitored call by Hoscoe Brown, Ike NtoaslxV Negro hardy man. lo Candy,who was al Uic Mayo Clinic 1« Roehestrr, Mina., after the mu»“‘ der.Goralein and lluttoo tach tod i copy of the tracer# and they read It aloud to the jury, Iluttoo lakiwg the part of Brown end the towering, raaswlJBt Gerstela the pirt of Candy,There were momenta to Oils ilmpromplj mlavtrel stow act when Judge George K. Schuiz seemed on the verge of colling for order, and he even lurr-ed are— anxious eye on (he press. But” ducorum prevailed—fhere «m-mmds of merriment but no load guffaws.Tto tra-cript ww offered a as effort to show that Candy had tried to make Kosroe chingc hla stories lo police, with Iht offer of a fat job later, after the storm has Moire over and when wc ilarl a now business in Houston.Don't Neglect SlippingFALSE TEETHDo tati* train dro». dip of wsM.a ■ran ,ou talt. «at. laugh «»-.««f. Dm'l ee inmr« and fma.nta.-M s? oieN hsnatcajo PAS1ECTI1 .-i alknime itum-uldl »lt;4ir loapnn. Hr -o jimr plalr* Ui; i falsa ima me** firmly tel OtTf* mnneaiil frel. inn f ifcujiy Mi!) atlrM c«»r«ft.tammy. arr. »ki» uu»l|«. Ing. Or*. FAIKbTk la'., al (bug •arraur*r
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Fort Pierce News Tribune

Fort Pierce, Florida, US

Tue, Feb 08, 1966

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