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Innocent Candy spreads kisses aroundMIAMI (DPI) - A 12-man jury found blonde Candace Mossier and her darkly handsome nephew. Melvin Lane Powers, Innocent Sunday of the passion-slaying of Candy’s aged millionaire husband.The verdict touched off tearful pandemonium In Ute county courthouse. Candy wracked with sobs, kissed Met, nei attorneys and the Jurors, gasping that, It restores my (allh In Itvlng.Her defense attorney cried. The assistant prosecutor wept.Manly Mel, Candy's alleged lover, jl'erely gulped, brushed his eyes and :-»ked In a quavering voice that ingoing back to Teas.The verdict ended seven often-lurtd weeks In the courtroom. Tbe state accused Candy, 46. and Mel, 29, of beating and stabbing 69-year-old Jacques Mossier to death In his Miami apartment on the night of June 30, 1964.Tbe prosecutnn insisted that Powers was goaded Into the killing by Candy, so they could get Mossler’s millions and continue their torrid affair.Tbe state produced five men who claimed Powers or Candy, or both, had tried to hire them to kill Mossier. The defense produced witnesses to testify that the fivemen were chronic liars.The prosecution p*it on 70 witnesses and the defense 36, and the case finally went to the Jury at 9:14 p.m. Thursday. After 16 hours and 33 minutes of actual deliberation - during which they once told Circuit Judge Charles E. Schulz they were hopelessly deadlocked - they reached the Innocent verdict The announcement that a verdict had been reached came at 10:43 a.m. EST Sunday.Candy had entered the courtroom wearing a two-piece brown suit with a low-cut neckline and kissed one of her attorneys, Walter Gwinn, on the ear.When she heard the words natguilty,” she burst Into sobs and glanced swiftly at Mel, who pursed his lips and Mew-out ■■Whee-ewi'*Powers, 6-feet-3 Inches tall and muscular. had sat smiling and passing a few words with an attorney, occasionally licking his lips nervously, before the verdict. Powers' chief attorney, hulking Texas courtroom dramatist Percy Foreman. who delivered a ringing five-hour oration to close out the defense’s case, wasn’t oc hand for the verdict.Candy and Powers embraced and kissed In front of photographers In tbe conference room behind the courtroom. Dabbing at her eyes with a white handkerchief, Candy sobbed. I want to say what a lot of gratitude I have to the good people of this country and Dade Cowty. It restores my wt»le faith In living and everything that Is good.”
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Kokomo Morning Times
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Mon, Mar 07, 1966
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