Title supplied by cataloger. In 1935, authorities reopened the investigation into the shooting death of Hazel Belford Glab's third husband, John I. Glab, a wealthy retired Chicago Druggist whose mysterious death seven years earlier had remained unsolved. In April 1936, while already serving a prison term of 2 to 14 years in the Tehachapi Women's Prison after being found guilty of forgery and preparing false evidence in the Albert Llewellyn Cheney estate case, Hazel Glab was convicted of second-degree murder for killing John Glab, the sentence being seven-years-to-life. Surprisingly, though, she was out of prison in 1943 after serving only 7 years. Photograph article dated March 10, 1936 reads, "Calmly studying a gun from which, the prosecution contends, emerged the bullet that killed John L. [sic] Glab, her husband, Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab is shown on the stand while being questioned by her attorney, S. S. Hahn. Ballistic experts who fired test bullets from the gun said there were points of similarity between them and the bullet that killed Glab eight years ago, but said it was impossible to state definitely that this was the death gun. Mrs. Glab is on trial for the murder."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Glab, Hazel--Trials, litigation, etc Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles Trials--California--Los Angeles Murder--California--Los Angeles Lawyers--California--Los Angeles Attorney and client--California--Los Angeles Mariticide--California--Los Angeles Women murderers--California--Los Angeles Murderers--California--Los Angeles Criminals--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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