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MIAMI, Fla. «AP» — A wiry, stretches in 1%2 He said she thin-faced convict claims he gave him a $7,000 down pay-was told of a deal *o try and ment to kill her husband, but frame Candace Mossier and her the deal never went through nephew. Melvin Lane Powers, Mulvey also testitied that he in the slaying ol her multimil- found himself two years later in honaire husband. the same Houston jail with Pow-He is Virgil Nelson Halford, ers. alter Powers had been ar-29. serving a lite term in Texas rested in the 1964 Mossier slay-for raping a 9-year-old girl. He ingreturns to the stand today lor * He told me be killed Jacques cross-examination. Mossier. Mulvey said MulveyWednesday, Halford described still lias five years to go on a a conversation be said he had theft conviction,with a star witness for the state, Powers. 29. and Mrs. Mossier, IBill Frank Mulvey, another con- who savs she is 40. are on trial ivict from Texas. tor murder in Mossier's slay- jHe told me he didn’t know inganything about the case. He told Haltord said early in 1965,me he was going to testify to while he and Mulvey were 1whatever people wanted him to working in the penitentiary cane 1 testify about He told me be had field, the subject ot the Mossier , made a deal. slaying came up. lt;“He said he didn't think he “ife told me he had made a I would ever have to c o m e deal to get a habitual indict- t back to the Texas State Peniten- ment off him it he would help tiary if he came down and testi- get a conviction of Melvin Lane i tied. He told me if the defense Powers. Halford said. \would make it worth his while, The “habitual was a charge i 1m* would sell out to them ’ that could have imprisoned Mul- t Sixteen days ago, the state vcy for life for repealed lelo- r put Mulvey, 35. on *he stand He nies. Mulvey s wife, testily ing t related a chilling tale of a mur- for the defense earlier this o der-for-hire proposition he said week, said it wasn’t clear to her It was put to him by Mrs Mossier how her husband had gotten off I while he was between pnson with only a six-year rap. jl*
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Snyder Daily News
Snyder, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 24, 1966
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