"RED LILAC"
SQUAW'S HOT PASSION MURDER TRIAL > BUFFALO. March 21. "He's my man," declared "Red Lilac" the Indian .squaw who Stranghi| the wife of the sculptor, Henri Marcliand, on account of her infatuation for him, at her trial to-day. "If he wants me to tell, I shall ell," she added.
The tragedy is thrown into sharp .clicf by the'contrast between "Red Lilac" " (Lila Jemmcrson), a wiry Soneca redskin, and the cultured Frenchwoman who was her victim.
The primitive woman showed fcrcnicimlous devotion to Hie famous sculptor, who immortalised her, and who is now held on £SOOO bail as a material witness in this eivmms.case.
"Red Lilac" admitted that she killed Clothilde Marchaiid ••because she was jealous of Henri's love.' Marchami claims that his relations with the Indian were on W, purely .-business basis, as sho''Was 'his model, and says lie could not l">lp her faliingj in love with him. He lived as an''lndian amongst the Seneca tribe Avhile he created her image in stone.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17227, 5 April 1930, Page 5
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