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oawn, and In and cut of the courtroom Half a doren or more times a day as the lawyert get Into the sort of legal hassle that might affect the iurymen's judgment If they were allowed to itay within hearing.Before the attacks on Mu!-vcy came a continuation of testimony demolishing the characters of Edward Bart Hioltl, the ex-con former Mossier handyman Arlliur (Ananias) Grim-s!cy, the former magazine salesman now doing lime in Arkansas (where he says he has become an expert on the Bible) ami o\hcr state witnesses who hnvc testified to tie Canriy Mossier or Me! Powers, or both, into Mossier s murder.Mrs. Jean Hoffman, of Houston, a towering, shapely redhead, co-owner of Publishers Continental Sales, which employed Grimsley in 1961, swore he was a liar and a cheat who couldn’t be believed on a slack of Bibles and had a “bad rep-ulalion for veracity in 4$ slates.Bearing testimony against Diehl came Sailor Q.iadc, a small stocky man with hair like a wind flattened white cloud and eyebrows like Hying jibs, who says he has lived four years across the fence from the Mossier ranch outside Galveston. Retired after 20 years of Civil Service work with the Navy, Qnadc lives with hi?, son-in-law, Robert Xolly, who operates Kelly’s Kool Korncr Tav-ern near the .Mossier ranch.The sailor siOd he did not1\tIII!:Iall of a lifetime on his hands, Halford unhurriedly answered the right questions in the right way. readily but always leaving room for another question, according to the strict rules of direct examination.H» thus let H b# drawn from him slowly that Swiny Mulvey told him cno day he would have to go to Florida on the case that he didn't know what he wa* going to say, as he knew very little about the Mossier affair only What they read in the papers, but he was gonna tesf'fy to whatever people wanted him to because he had made a deal with some off i era I s who had came and taw him . , ,s« he would get a habitual indictment off Ms back in Harris County If he would help convict Powers/'A habitual indictment In Texas means a conviction automatically carrying a life sentence.Asked to name the officials’' who had come from Miami, Halford said he couldn't remember any names except one, which was Manson Hill (a top detective in I he Dade County
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Fort Pierce News Tribune
Fort Pierce, Florida, US
Thu, Feb 24, 1966
Page 11
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