Title supplied by cataloger.; Used in the Exhibit: The First with the Latest! Aggie Underwood, the Los Angeles Herald, and the Sordid Crimes of a City. 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 April 2, 1936 reads, Three women - two convicted murderesses and one an attempted slayer - are shown with guards when they left Los Angeles today for long terms in the women's prison at Tehachapi. Left to right, Hazel Glab, convicted of the eight-year-old murder of her husband and also convicted of forgery in the Albert Cheney will contest; Deputy Sheriff Verne Flemming, guard; Deputy Sheriff Adah Van Oeveran, guard; Frances Mabel Willys, convicted of slaying her elderly dentist-sweetheart, and Mrs. Berdie Brockman, convicted of trying to poison her son-in-law. Mrs. Glab smiles and carries a copy of a detective story magazine.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Glab, Hazel Prisoners--California--Los Angeles Women prisoners--California--Los Angeles Women murderers--California--Los Angeles Murderers--California--Los Angeles Criminals--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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