Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Close friend of Dr. Leonard Siever, Edna Herbst is being questioned in his death, after the dentist was found shot in the head and the heart. Edna watches Matthews closely as he reads over a document. Photograph appears with the article, "Arrest Looms as Possibility," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1933: A2. Text from newspaper caption: Society Matrons Questioned in Dentist's Death Below-Mrs. Edna Herbst and Blayney Matthews, chief special investigator of the District Attorney's office. Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Edna Herbst + Blaney Matthews Text from negative sleeve: HERBST, EDNA MRS. Society Matron questioned in Dentist's death, Leonard Siever.
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