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Missing from his home in Hackensack and is searched for by detectives; levy made upon his posessions
Charged with homicide, as witnesses say he threw unidentified man into East River from bridge
Airplane carries 50 cases of gold from Moscow to London
CLEVELAND, Aug. 17. -- Louis Mazer, an alleged leader in the underworld of Canton, who stands formally accused of the murder of Don R. Mellett, the Canton publisher, was grilled for hours here today and wept and shouted by turns as he protested his innocence of the crime and defied his inquisitors.