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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 of 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 her husband, Jacques Mossier, 69. He was gray, slender, and, in the words of the state, stood in the way of an incestuous love affair between his wife and her nephew. The defendants, if convicted, could have gone to the electric chair.Behind Mrs. Mossier and Powers at the unusual news conference in a downtown Miami hotel were Mrs. Mossler’s two blonde grown children by her first marriage, and the four attractive youngsters she and Jacques Mossier adopted during their marriage.Most of them figured in the eventual disposal of Mossier’s $33-million banking and loan business.“By July the entire estate should be distributed,” said Mrs. Mossler’s chief attorney,Clyde Woody.Mrs. Mossier, sensitive about her age, places it at 40. Powers Is 29.“I just want to thank everybody,” Powers said at the news conference. He said he would go back to Houston, Tex., in a few days to “pick up where I left off.”The jury heard more than 100 See MRS. MOSSLER, Page 7
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Dover Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio, US
Mon, Mar 07, 1966
Page 19
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