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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buffalo, N. Y., last month occurred a sordid sex murder involving two red women. Into the home of Henri Marchand, artist for the Buffalo Natural History Museum, had walked Nancy Bowen, 66-year-old Cayuga Indian from the nearby Cattaraugus Reservation. She had confronted Mrs. Marchand, small, slight, with a question: "Are you a witch?" Jestingly Mrs. Marchand replied: "Yes." Thereupon Nancy Bowen beat her down with a 10? hammer, stuffed chloroform-soaked paper down her throat, left her dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Witch Murder | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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