The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
ARTIST WOOED
indian MODEL
WITHOUT Love-
Seemed Easiest Way for
Art MarChand Says at
Murder Trial.
MERE CASUAL EPISODE
Calls Letters to Girl lust
a Lot of French
Pooh Pooh
BY HARRY VAN LUNGER
United Press STAFF Correspondent

BY HARRY VAN IUNGEK
United Press STAFF Correspondent
BUFFALO. March 28.-Henri
Marchand, who accepted the love
of Lila Emerson for the sake of his
art, today told the story of career
that stretched from Paris Latin
quarter to the courtroom here,
where the state of New York seeks
to punish the killer of his wife.
The artist resumed testimony in
the trial of Lila, his Indian model,
on a charge she conspired to kill
Mrs. Marchand because of her love
for the French sculptor.
Responsibility for the actual kill
ing has been assumed by Mrs.
Nancy Bowen, an aged Squaw, who
said Lila told her Mrs. Marchand
was witch" and persuaded her
to beat the white woman to death
with a hammer before evil spirits
exterminated the Bowen family.
Casual, Indifferent Adventure
Thursday Marchand told how his
affair with Lila had been for him
casual, Indifferent adventure,
something done because it seemed
the easiest way to persuade the
35year-old Indian to pose for him.
For her, he admitted, it had been
a case of genuine love, and the statea
will seek to show that she was SO
much in the grip of love she In
famed Nancy Bowen to the point
where she was ready to kill
Mrs. Bowen will be tried on a
charge of murder after the Jimer-
son trial.
Marchand casually confessed he
had had many love affairs, so many
he could not remember them all,
and offered as his defense the
varying standards Of morals in
France and the United States.
Keeps Eyes on Marchand N
Lila never removed her eyes from
Marchand as he testified The sculp-
tor was dressed in a bright blue
serge suit and wore a white collar
and black necktie. His gray hair
was brushed back from his forehead
and he smiled as he answered ques-
tons of John Maloney defense
counsel.
Marchand said that two years ago
Lila asked him to give her a lock
of his Wifes hair and that he re-
fused.
When you went to the reserVa-
ticn, didn't you mold Lila's mindP"
Maloney asked.
That's true"
did you have a deep, v~-n
friendship for Lila2'
mo"
you're lying aren't your"
loney shouted. you are afraid
might find yourself in difficulty
you admitted it, aren't your"
mo, am not"
Snaps Back at Attorney
Marchand grew angry as Malone y
led him through the details Of his
affair with Lila. IS
You're trying to paint me as
black as you can" the witness
shouted. 81 can't be as black as you
are trying to make me out"
Then Marchand revealed he had
wooed the Indian woman with an
the traditional technique Of the
French gallants. Most of it, he said.
was insincere.
DO you mean to tell me-" Ma
loney said, that you did not care
for this girl when you wrote in a
letter 1T will be real love meet
ing when I return?"
Il did not care for her. That's lust
a lot Of French pooh pooh about tho
love meeting"
Marchand identified 81 necklace
which he had bought for Lila. He
said that on Christmas, 1928. he had
sent Accent box of incense to the
woman, blanket to Mrs, Anne
Snow, Lila's aunt, and a sweater to
Anson Emerson, the woman's ia
Their.
Shouts Answers to Questions
Lila smiled when Marchand said
she was "a terrible cook" and
winked at newspapermen as she
grinned
Marchand denied a. newspaper
story which quoted him as SAYING
he held Lila in utmost contempt .
He leaned over the witness box and
shouted answers to Maloneys
questions:
do you hate this womanP"
mo"
Don't you hate the woman
charged with your wife's murder?"
mo, I have only pity for her
ignorance"
In everything you said or wrote
10 Lila were you lying?"
YES lied to her"
'TH Write You One."
do you admit saying you were
not an angelo"
"Oh, yes, I recall it,"
Don't you call those missives you
wrote Lila, love letters?'" Maloney
queried.
mo. II you want to see real
love letter, I'll write you one" the
witness snapped.
Have you any regret that you
deceived this woman-profession~
ally?"
"ProfeSSionally-no."
Court then recessed for luncheon.