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... Jim Bishop reports ...Miami, Fla. — Murder trials arc all ugly. The laughing Is done by the lawyers. The defendants are suspended on a ticking clock. They try hard to appear innocent and light-hearted. Terror is a live snake in tin* belly. The jury dozes. It absorbs scores of thousands of indigestible words. The judge’s prime interest is in reversible error.The public feels that llic defendants must bo guilty. If not, why were they indicted and tried? fn the Jacques Mossier ease, lie was .stabbed 39 limes by a person or persons unknown, lie was a rich man, a braggart who owned five banks. II is wife, Candace, and her nephew, Melvin Powers, are tried for his murder.All oF the marionettes are on the sbclh floor of the Dade County Courthouse. They act their parts Me actors cast for a Perry Mason drama. Judge Schulz is cool and cordial, almost solicitous. W hen the lawyers shout, he whispers in„ ...t-----•of watching (wo dead people breathe crashes to the cellar of consciousness. The concomitants of a good murder trial are stx and weallh and execution. Lacking these, it's a flop. A comedy. A pompous high mass celebrated oy the unordaincd.The reporters sit on a braneh-owls watching the stalking of games below. The can help liu one. Bui they can hurt. If the lady leaves with a headache, she. “collapsed.” If (ho prosecutor oulsboiits the defense, he is ''hysterical.” Jf the judge admonishes an attorney, it's a tongue-lashing.” Should the young man smite, lie ‘'smirked.”H has always been like this. Damon rtunyon made the Ruth Snydcr-Judd dray trial sound like u nude jazz hand. Walter Wine hell lent frenzy lu the trial of Richard Hauptmann for Ihe kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. Dorothy Kilgallen wrote the Sum Shepherd murder trial with a hatpin. Floyd (’ribbons, Gene Fowler, Jack Miley, Meyer Berger, Jack LaiL even old
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Columbus Daily Telegram
Columbus, Nebraska, US
Wed, Feb 09, 1966
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