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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...
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...
Tufts--Hastings, c.f.; Childs, c.f.; Miller, c.f.; Verge, 2b., l.f.; McCarthy, 1b.; Zapolski, 3b.; Hornig, s.s.; Marchand, l.f., 2b.; Fine, r.f; Martin, c.; Hatch...
...ballet suite, "Chout", follows, and comprises four parts: (a) Danse des filles des buffons, (b) Dans la chambre a coucher du marchand, (c) La jeune femme est devenue chevre, and (d) Danse finale. Prokofleff wrote the ballet in 1915, but it was not produced until 1921. The music is quite colorful throughout, and might even be characterized as rowdy in spots...
Before the War, Mangin saw service in Senegal, the French Sudan, the Congo (Fashoda) under Colonel Marchand, in Tonkin, West Africa and Morocco, gradually rising to the rank of Brigadier General...