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days to “pick up who* I left off”The Jury heard more than log witoessee during the seven-week trial to a white-walled, sixth-floor courtroom. Included wen convict* the state called ftwa penitentiaries who swore Mrs. Mossier and her nephew had shopped for two years to hire someone to kill her husband.Failing that, the state claimed, they undertook to do tt themselves.The state diarged that “Powers was a man driven to murder by an insatiable desire for thla woman who was the mastermind sod the manipulator be bind die entire scheme/*This was the testimony — and it ran to hundreds of thousands of words — the jury took with them in their minds at 9:14 p m. Thursday Ink « deliberationroom.They balloted that night and they were split. They balloted four more times on Friday and Saturday. At 11:90 arn. Saturday they sent in word to Judge George Schulx that they were hopelessly deadlocked. The vote then, according to a juror afterwards, was nine for acquittal, three ter first-degree murder judgment against both defendants.Judge Sohuls sent word back to the jury to try some more.And by Sunday momin* '* jurors had rearing The verdi**
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Lima Star
Lima, Ohio, US
Mon, Mar 07, 1966
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