THIRD EDITION. UNIQUE U.S. TRIAL
WOMEN IN LEADING ROLES CLEVELAND (Ohio), June 14. For the first time in the annals of tlio U.K. criminal courts :i woman, charged with the murder of another woman,is being prosecuted and defended by women lawyers.
The trial opened with -Mrs. Josepl Glazer, 41, facing the modern Portia the Assistant County Prosecutor, Mis: Evelyn Cohen. The prisoner was dc fended by Mrs. Sarah lledriek, i noted woman attorney.
The charge against Mrs. Glazer i. the deliberate slaying of her lius hand's second wife, aged 20, a fev weeks after the marriage in April The hitter's body was found, revolve in hand, with a .note saying: " You first wife haunts me. !. have endei it all." A verdict of suicide was reverse) when the husband narrowly escape* a bullet from a woman in man's at lire, believed to be the prisoner Handwriting experts are among tin chief witnesses.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 15
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