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MIAMI, Fla. A burly asked him if he would kill knife into his body 39 times.jshared an apartment with repairman testified yesterday Mossler "for some quick! that Melvin Lane Powers money.' MARTIN SAID Powers at Caltragirone, 39, testified for Mossler, handsome Vincent asked him to kill Jacques when he refused, Martin tacked him with a knife in the state that Mossler was Mossler and told him he said, Powers picked up a letDecember 1963 when Martin "definitely not" a homosexual. would like personally to stab ter opener and pabbed it time announced he was quitting his But he said Mossler's widow, Mossler "until he was dead." and again into a desk top. job and asked for his pay. widow tried to convince him

The witness, Earl Martin,

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"He said if he had his way,' Martin said he took Pow-after the killing that Mossler said he refused the offer and Martin related, "that he would ers' knife away and "whipped consorted with "gay people." Powers later attacked him take a knife and jug and jug him." He said he did it again He testified for the state twice. He said he beat up and jug him again until he the next day when Powers which was trying to counterPowers on both occasions. was dead." Martin explained "came to my house... and act defense contentions that Martin, the fourth man to that "jug" meant stab. said he was gonna kill me." Mossler was a likely victim of Earlier, the man who once a sex deviate.

testify that he was offered Mossler's killer plunged the

money for the life of the multimillionaire banker, also said Powers told him that he got money from his aunt, Candace Mossler, by performing unnatural sex acts.

MARTIN SAID THAT when he expressed doubt Powers got Candece on the telephone and Martin heard her confirm it.

Powers and Mrs. Mossler are accused of conspiring to kill her 69-year-old husband.

Martin, a repairman at Powers' trailer business at Webster, Tex., said Powers