National Affairs: Tulapai

In grim, guttural Apache, Golney ("Mac") Seymour, undersized Redskin buck, told a Federal court in Globe. Ariz. last week how he happened to attack and kill white Henrietta Schmerler, Columbia University student, last summer (TIME, Aug. 3, Nov. 15).

"I visited my father that day," his literally translated confession began. "He told me of dance and asked me get my wife Elizabeth. On way I bought 50ยข worth beer and drank a few times. Got Elizabeth. We both had horses. Reached my father's wickiup. Robert Gatewood [his brother-in-law] invited me in to drink. I drank some tulapai [aboriginal moonshine]. I rode past...

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