Word: schmerler
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...that an Apache buck had accompanied her. It was later learned that an Apache buck had made unwelcome advances to her. Several young tribesmen were held for questioning. All were characteristically mute. None was indicted for the girl's death. No Apache seemed to know anything about the Schmerler case...
...indication of understanding. Having heard all he wanted, last week Federal Agent J. A. Street doffed his disguise, went to one Golney Seymour, 21-year-old tribesman, accused him of the murder. Retaining the traditional calm of his fathers, Apache Seymour confessed that he had started out with Miss Schmerler to the dance, said that when he had offered her affection she had started throwing rocks at him. Then he raped her, stabbed her, choked her, struck her with a stone, left her dead...
Alone in a shack on the White River, Ariz., four miles from the Apache reservation, lived Henrietta Schmerler, 23, a New York girl who wanted to learn Indian tribal secrets. A brilliant student of anthropology and ethnology at Columbia University under famed Professor Franz Boas, she had been granted a fellowship to go west and study red men in situ...
...canyon on the reservation last week was found the body of Student Schmerler. She had been stabbed, beaten, choked, thrown into the deep ravine. A few days before, she was said to have set out with Apache Claude Gilbert, 25, to attend a native dance at White River. Alarmed at her long absence from her shack, a white deputy sheriff organized a posse of Indians. They brought back the battered corpse fastened to the back of a horse...