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MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - Blonde Candace Mossier set out today, as she put It. to mother a brood of adored children and to pick up the pieces” of a $33-million business.She was asked in the presence ©f her nephew, Melvin Lane Powers, following their acquittal Sunday in the 1964 slaying of her multimillionaire husband: “Mrs. Mossier, will you and Mel Powers be married?”In a little girl voice, normal for her but tinged it seemed with a trace of vexation, Mrs. Mossier with her children behind her, replied at a news conference:“We don’t have any intentions In that direction.Union between aunt and nephew is generally forbidden by American law, although it would be possible outside the United States. Florida law prohibits marriage between blood aunt and nephew.Less than three hours earlier, Mrs. Mossier and Powers had been acquitted by an all-male Jury of the brutal slaying of herclaimed, they undertook to do ^unanimous as a final ballot was;! themselves. taken for each of the defend- !The state charged that “Pow-jants. ers was a man driven to murder. At 10:37 a.m., there was by an insatiable desire for this knock of the jury room door. A woman who was the master-jbailiff. William Peters, remind and the manipulator be-jsponded to the summons and hind the entire scheme.” was informed: We have a ver-This was the testimony — and diet.” it ran to hundreds of thousands It took nearly an hour and a of words — the jury took with half for the judge to round up them in their minds at 9:14 p.m. j the lawyers and have the de-Thursday into a deliberation: fendants brought from their ho-room. I tel.They balloted that night and; Then at 12:12 p.m., the jury they were split. They balloted|filed in. four more times on Friday and After three minutes by the Saturday. At 11:30 a.m. Satur-!courtroom clock, the innocent day they sent in word to Judge:verdicts had been read. Powers George Schulz that they were smiled and this time there was hopelessly deadlocked. The vote nothing forced about it. He let then, according to a juror after-out his breath and his lips wards, was nine for acquittal, formed a plainly.visible almost three for first-degree murder audible “Whew!” judgments against both de-j -it’s like a horrible nightmare fendants. lhad ended.” Mrs. MossierJudge Schulz sent word back sobbed, to the jury to try some more, i *Tin just very happy, Pow-And by Sunday morning the ers explained to newsmen with jurors had reached agreement!whom he had exchanged hardly; The verdict for acquittal was a single word during the trial.
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Fond Du Lac Commonwealth Reporter
Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Mar 07, 1966
Page 22
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