TEMPERAMENT!
ARTIST’S LOVE-LETTERS MURDER SEQUEL BUFFALO, March 29. With self-conscious bravado, .Henri Man-hand, noted artist and sculptor, placidly admitted his philandering with '“Red Lilac,’’ of the Seneca tribe, whom lit 1 grew to know while painting on an Indian reservation. “Red Lilac” (Lila Jemmerson) is being tried for the murder of Marchami ’s wife. 'The grey-haired sculptor declared that his burning love-letters to her from time to time were just the expression of his French temperament, to make his paramour feel good. H was professional necessity, he declared, which induced his intimacy with the Indian woman, who became so insanely jealous that she assisted an old Indian sorceress named Nancy to kill his wife. The two women confessed that they watched Madame Man-hand while sinleaned over the radio, explaining its mysteries to them, when 'they tapped her head hard enough with a hammer to cause fatal concussion.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 15
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