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Candace(Continued from Pa^e Om*|Mossier and wanted his monev.►Defense attorney Percy Foreman said Mossier was a ruthless businessman who had Jong been involved in homosexual affairs,“If each one of the 39 knife wounds in Jacques Messier’s body was inflicted by a different person, there stili would be many times that number of people left with real or imaginary justification,” Foreman told* the jury when the trial opened in a crowded Miami courtroom. •Neither Mrs. Mossier or Powers took the witness stand, hut more than 10(1 other persons testified. Several convicts werebrought from prison to testify that they had been offered money by Mrs. Mossier and her nephew to kill the bankerThe jury' deliberated 16 hours and 33 minutes before returning a verdict of acquittal for both.“It is like a horrible nightmare has ended,” she said at the time. “Not only for myself, bur for my poor little children back home. I left them crying/'The children were, in fact, not the natural children of Mrs. Mossier or Jacques Mossier. They had adopted the children after their mother and one of their brothers was murdered by their father in 1957.
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Danville Register
Danville, Virginia, US
Wed, Oct 27, 1976
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