Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab with Clara Steeger and attorney S. S. Hahn, Los Angeles, 1935

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Handwritten at edge of negative: glab Willis ..., Glab was accused of the 1928 murder of her husband, pharmacist John I. Glab. Mrs. Glab had been only recently convicted of forging the will of her late fiancee, wealthy manufacturer Albert Cheney, who died in Las Vegas before the two could be wed. John I. Glab was shot in the home he and Hazel Glab shared, on the evening of June 18, 1928. Mrs. Glab contested that her husband had been shot by her former lover, policeman W. R. McIntyre, and that she had been home listening to the radio with her niece the eve of the murder and had not heard the shot. Glab had been married to the pharmacist for only 16 months. Hazel Glab was convicted of second-degree murder on March 21, 1936., Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds., Hazel Belford Glab, wearing sunglasses and holding a fur coat and a copy of the magazine "Master Detective," with her attorney S. S. Hahn and friend Clara Steeger, standing next to a car.