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Candace Mossier on Trial Today in Husband's DeathMIAMI Fla. lt;AP) - Candace Mossier, 47. and Melvin Lane Powers, her 24-year-old nephew, go on trial today in the 1%4 slaying of Mrs. Mossier s millionaire husband.Mrs. Mossier and Powers, son of Mrs. Mossler's sister, Elizabeth Weather by Powers, are charged with the bludgeon-stabbing death of Jacques Mossier, 69. a financier who had extensive banking and loan company interests.The state charges that Mrs. Mossier and Powers plotted the June 30, HIM. death of Mossier because he had discovered a love affair between the two.Circuit Court Judge George Schulz, who set aside six weeks for the trial, freed the two on $50,000 bonds each after an earlier preliminary hearing, during which time the state produced much ot the ev idence it planned to use in the trial.Powers was arrested in Houston, Tex., three days after Mossler's body was found in his plush Key Biscayno apartment. Mossier s head had been smashed with a heavy object and the killer had stabbed him 39 times.ers* arrest, Mrs. Mossier said: “Oh, pooh. Mel didn't do it.” She scoffed at state claims that she and Powers were lovers.
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Austin Daily Herald
Austin, Minnesota, US
Mon, Jan 17, 1966
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