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Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Hazel Glab (nee Belford), whose escapades in the late 1920s through the mid-1930s was the stuff that newspaper headlines were made of, has once again resurfaced in court. She was accused of soliciting Jo Ann Thomas, 27, for the purpose of prostitution. Police stated that Thomas worked at Mrs. Glab's home for a period of two weeks and earned $500 from men brought there by Glab. She testified that she split her earnings fifty-fifty with Glab, who pleaded not guilty to the pandering charge. In 1935, she was convicted of forging a will in an effort to get the $400,000 estate of wealthy fiancé and realty owner, Albert Cheney, who died under mysterious circumstances. Glab was sent to Tehachapi Women's Prison in 1936 after being convicted of second-degree murder. In 1936, the state reopened the 1928 murder investigation of her husband John I. Glab, a wealthy retired Chicago Druggist, who was killed in front of his Van Nuys estate just four months after their marriage. Although also convicted in that case, she was paroled November 29, 1941, and on July 4, 1946 married Alfred M. Bridge, 61, a Hollywood character actor. They separated in 1953. First photograph caption dated September 26, 1957 reads "Mrs. Hazel Bridge, 52, of 4150 Bellingham Ave., Studio City, has accused trio of robbing her of $900 in cash and a three-carat $5,490 diamond ring. They have been ordered to stand trial. Mrs. Bridge was convicted of second-degree murder of her former husband in 1936." Second photograph caption dated April 23, 1958 reads "Mrs. Hazel Glab Bridge, 54, of 4150 Bellingham Ave., Studio City, who served five years for murder of her husband in 1936, appeared today in Superior Court on pandering charge and waived jury trial. Superior Judge Thomas L. Ambrose will return verdict May 13. She is out on bail."
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