Names: Steeger, Clara, b. 1891 or 92 / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Hazel Bedford Glab (right), convicted of forging her fiance Albert Cheney's will, pictured with her attorney S.S. Hahn and friend Clara Steeger, who falsely signed the will as a witness. Cheney died in a vegas hotel room the night before he was to wed Glab. The forgery charges were brought against Glab by Cheney's daughter Catherine Cheney Taylor.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “WILL CASE DEFENDANT SURRENDERS: Mrs. Steeger, Arraigned on Forgery Charge in Cheney Action Pleads Not Guilty,” Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 1935: A3.
Date:: November 2, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Mrs. Clara Steeger hiding her face as she and Mrs. Hazel Glab enter jail. Behind them is an unidentified man holding keys (perhaps he works at the jail?). There appears to be some age damage to the photo in the lower left hand corner.
Date:: December 28, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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