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Charged with instigating the crime was Lila ("Red Lilac") Jimerson, 39, a Seneca Indian, sallow, flat-chested, scraggle-haired, toothless, a consumptive whom doctors have given two years to live. She had been Marchand's model for Indian pictures for the museum. He had seduced her, continued his relations with her. She loved him. She had told Nancy Bowen on the reservation that Mrs. Marchand was a witch, that she was responsible for the death of Charley ("Sassafras") Bowen, Nancy's husband. Nancy Bowen went to the Marchand house, committed the crime which Lila Jimerson thought would give...