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Title
Hazel Glab, Frances Mabel Willys and Berdie Brockman sent up the river
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
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.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00094284
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2285
CARL0005016210
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33854
Subject
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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