Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1935, Page 20

A—20 . WOMAN'S DEATH MYSTFES POLCE Scissors and. Broken Glass TumblerFigure in Wounds n on Body. éthe Associated Press. .4 LOS ANGELES, December 5.—The .strange and violent death of Mrs. ah Herring, 58-year-old wife of a ptroit electrical engineer, was “gither murder or the most unusual accident” in Los Angeles police rec- ¥ é $ ords, baffled officers said yesterday. 5 : | ’i . The woman's body was found yes- ¥ . R flé‘ terday by her daughter, Martha, 17, K 2 s at the foot of the stairway in their suburban home in Compton. G s The prongs of a pair of scissors £ had been driven into Mrs. Herring's o, brain through a gash under her left * * eye. Her head was wounded severely, and particles of a glass tumbler-were | bedded in her face. Petrified Block Near. Near the body was a 16-pound block | ‘©f blood-stained petrified avood, which | usually rested on a pedestal on a landing of the stairway. | Failing to clear up the puzzling cir- cumstances in a preliminary investi- gation, Inspector Norris Stensland of the sherifi’s homicide detail said: #Mrs. Herring either was murdered or was the victim of one of the most unusual accidents in our records.” | Stensland said the woman may have tripped coming down the stairs, | struck her head on the petrified wood and then plunged to the floor, driving the scissors into her brain and grind- ing the glass from a tumbler into Commoflore Vanderbilt Electric Freight Trains Sears offers the first reversible train . 2.95 set with oil-less bearings at this low Mflm_er e P price. Black engine with reverse lever, and Track Murder Possibilities. ‘ | \ Whatlittle girl doesn’t concealed electric headlights and ten- : : oLl “1f she was slain,” the inspector | W+ want a “Shirley Tem- Y P o 2 , e - f 1 Pl dol? 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