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State PlacesPowers NearUncle’s HomeMIAMI, Fla (AP) — Slate testimony has placed Melvin Lane Powers near the home of his uncle less than six hours before the multimillionaire was SlainThe slate currently Is directing its efforts toward a complicated but fascinating phase of the first degree murder trial It Is attempting to prove the element of opportunity — which Involves the painstaking retracing of the defendant’s footsteps In an effort to show that he was In the vicinity of the cnme and therefore could have committed ItPowers Is on trial for his life with his attractive blonde aunt. Candace Mossier, In the June 30 1964. slaying of her husband. Jacques. 69, head of a $33 million banking and loan empireAunt and nephew have been depicted by the state as participants in a blazing, abnormal love affair although he is 29 and she is 10 or more years older Today, the state was expected to continue tracing Powers’ movements surrounding the 1 45 am. period when Mossier was bludgeoned and stabbed 39 timesRecord Phone CallState witnesses said Tuesday-that Powers placed a telephoneBLONDE CANDACE MOSSf.ER grimaces after sniffing smelling salts after she became ill in Miami, Fla . courtroom during first degree murder trial Assisting her is Clyde Woody, Houston. Tex . her lawyer She and her nephew are accused in the death of her husband. (AP W,rephoto)es, Barbara Ann Barrer. said the plane landed at Miami International Airport at 5 55 p m . with Powers aboard The day's last witness. Mar shall Kline, 40, was tending bar at Miami s Stuft Shirt lounge near the causeway leading to Key Biscayne where Mossierhad his apartment He testified Powers was in the cocktail lounge about 8 or 8 30 had a drink and left after asking for t an empty Coca Cola bottle Less than six hours later.! Mossier was dead — with the;| bludgeon weapon as yet un*[] known. j
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Fond Du Lac Commonwealth Reporter
Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Feb 16, 1966
Page 34
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