Click2Flicks - Chicago - The Real Velma Kelly - Chapter 5

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>CHICAGO</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 5 - THE REAL VELMA KELLY</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Belva Gaertner was a pretty cabaret singer who had been divorced twice by the end of 1923. Her young, married boyfriend - Walter Law - was a car salesman.</p> <p>Walter was found dead in Belva’s car. The evidence clearly pointed to the singer herself as the shooter: She was found, drunk, with Law’s blood on her body and the gun in her possession.</p> <p>W.W. O’Brien was also Gaertner’s lawyer. His defense in this case? Belva had drunk too much gin to remember what had happened.</p> <p>Belva’s case went to trial the month after Beulah’s. On the 6th of June, 1924, an all-male jury also set her free.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="chicago_ch4.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="chicago_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>    <a href="chicago_ch6.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>