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Mossier case(Continued from Page One)62-minute speech — the prosecution's last plea for conviction — Mrs Mossier and her big, broad-shouldered nephew conferred in an anteroom of the courThe motives of rlns murder. Gerstem said, “were as old as the historv of hum,inwbeings — greed, avarice, lust, monev.“.lacques Mossier was in the way You couldn't be sure control of all this money woo’d go fo Candace Mossier and Melvin Lane Powers until vou com-pletely eliminated Jacques Mossier from the face of the earth“That's wdiat tiiev set ou* towdo and that's what they accomplishedFrom the outset, the state attorney said, the defense ' put on trial the character of Jacques Mossier, the police department of this community, and the state attorney’s office ”wMe called this ‘‘the oldest technique in criminal law ”
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The Montana Standard

Butte, Montana, US

Fri, Mar 04, 1966

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