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CANDACE MOSSIERJACQUES MOSSIERfiosen of Houston.Mossier, whose financial in* erest3 spread into Texas Illi icis, Indiana, flotilla and ibroad, was known on Key Els-:ayne as a man devoted in nhil Iren. He frequently entertained as many as 20 at The beach and Save them John F. Kennedy lalf dollars. Hr had four children by a first marriage, adopted four and had another by his vife, Candace.When the killer struck. Mos* der’s four adopted children vere shocked for the second ime by the violent death of a went.In Chicago in 1957, Leonard Siena, a former mental patient, tilled his wife and one son with a rifle. When Mossier read thal .he four surviving Glenn children were to become war s of :hc state, he arranged to tr.ke them.On the night of Master's murder, his wife said, she left the apartment about midnight with four of the children, went :o a hospital to get some sfo»i6 for a headache, and returned about 4:30 a.m.Die neighbors who heard the screams had not called jjol:ce and Mrs. Mossier said she walked in to find the body under the blanket.A bloodstained car owned by Mossier was found nf Miami International Airport and. three days later, Sgl. Charles Maddox of the Dade County Hnnveide Department look Powers into custody at Houston.When he heard of Powers’ arrest, Mrs. Mossier said. Oh, pooh. Mel didn't do it.” Anti she scoffed at state claims that sheand Powers were lovers.Asked about the my darling letters, found among Powers’ possession* in die office of his trailer business at Webster, Tex., she said: I call everybody darling. I loved my husband. He needed me.Edward Bart Diehl, a carnival worker and ex-convict, testified at the bond hearing that Powers and Mrs. Mossier made him the $10,000 olfer in 1902 buthe turned it down because I have stole and cheated, but I ain't guiuia kill nobody.The proposition, he said, was made while he was working temporarily on a ranch owned by Mossier near Calveston. He said Mrs. Mossier told him he would get $5,000 when the job was done and the rest after estate is settled.Oilier witnesses testified they saw Power* \A a bar near the apartment house the night of the murder.John Tyler, former FBI fingerprint expert, identified a palm print found on a kitchen sink in [he Mossier apartment as belonging to Powera. And a ban dynian, Roscoc Drown, said he scrubbed the sink a few hours before the banker was slain.NOTICEPBE DEE SHRINE CLUQ: Regular meeting for C$2 January will be held 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 181h instead of January 25th to avoid conflict with Charleston meeting.ALL MEMBERS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE OF THIS AND UE PRESENT.John L. Bruce, president O. Leo. Johnson, secretary 1 Man. 13. 24. 15. 16. 17. 181MASONIC NOTICEThere will be a Special Communication of Mecca m T/Origc No. 407 AKM f _A . Monday, Jan. 17 lor llic purpose of conferring 1hc Fellow-craft Degree. Eligible Masons urged to attend.J. C. Lofton, W. M. J. A. King, Sec’y iJan. 15. If. 171MELVIN LANE POWERS
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Florence Morning News
Florence, South Carolina, US
Sun, Jan 16, 1966
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