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Description:: Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab appears in court to give testimony in her defense on March 16, 1936. 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.
Date:: March 16, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Leroy E. Sanderson and Captain Bert Wallis investigate a crime scene.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Betty Carroll seated in a chair with her legs crossed. One hand is in her lap and the other is near her shoulder. Betty was She was Harry Thomas' partner, who was a criminal that was shot to death by police in 1927. Photo appears with the article, "Six Accused in Green Murder: "Mile Away" Thomas Named in One of Complaints Police Seek Others Also as Result of Killing Possible Blood Stains Found on Rifle Analyzed," Los Angeles Times, 06 Feb. 1927: 5.
Date:: February 5, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Betty Carroll wearing a fur coat looking down and holding a handkerchief to her nose. She was Harry Thomas' partner, who was a criminal that was shot to death by police in 1927. Photo appears with the article, "Girl Reveals Thomas Plan: "Mile-Away" on Liquor Hunt at Time of Death Dispels Rumors Hijacker "Framed" by Police Three Other Men Hunted as Gangster's Partners," Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 1927: A2.
Date:: April 22, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to "Death Party Recounted by Sailor," Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr 1935: 1.
Date:: April 27, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Seema Matlin is posing next to a window with wired glass. She is wearing a checked dress with a belt and a cardigan. Her right arm is raised and her hand grasps a window bar. Her left arm is bent and her hand rests on her waist. She is smiling at the camera.
Date:: September 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: James Fagan Culver denies shooting 44-year-old Ethel E. Whittaker in an attempted hotel robbery. He was obtained by police in a building next door to Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker's hotel at 624 South Alvarado Street with three bullet wounds.
Date:: March 18, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Jacob Berman (alias Jack Bennett) was charged with participation in a plot to bribe district attorney Asa Keyes to dismiss charges against himself and colleagues for his role in the over-issue of Julian Oil Corporation stock in 1927. He was also separately indicted in cases of embezzlement and forgery; the latter trial took place between 1928-1930. In those later trials, Berman testified for the State against Julian Petroleum.
Date:: [between 1928-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Jacob Berman (alias Jack Bennett) was charged with participation in a plot to bribe district attorney Asa Keyes to dismiss charges against himself and colleagues for his role in the over-issue of Julian Oil Corporation stock in 1927. He was also separately indicted in cases of embezzlement and forgery; the latter trial took place between 1928-1930. In those later trials, Berman testified for the State against Julian Petroleum.
Date:: [between 1928-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Smith Group Surrenders," Los Angeles Times, 03 Mar 1936: A2.
Date:: March 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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