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Edward Marr, Robbery Victim

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Edward Marr, bank messenger for Montgomery Ward and Co., and victim of Madison's second daylight holdup in a month, is searching through the bandit picture...
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Highway Patrol Inspection

Date: 07 19 1962
Description: Inspection of Wisconsin State Highway patrolmen.
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Prison Industries

Date: 1961
Description: Punch press equipment at one of the Wisconsin prisons used for the manufacture of license plates and traffic signs. This photograph appeared in a 1961 publ...
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Frank Deischel with Slot Machine

Date: 02 27 1942
Description: Frank Deischel, Wausau, President of the Tavern League of Wisconsin, standing with an illegal slot machine in Deischel's tavern.
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Ed Gein Arriving at State Crime Lab

Date: 11 19 1957
Description: Law enforcement officials escorting Ed Gein (1906-1984) to the state crime lab, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests.
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Ed Gein Escorted to State Crime Lab

Date: 11 17 1957
Description: Ed Gein (1906-1984) is escorted by three law enforcement officers to the State Crime Laboratory, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests.
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Ed Gein at State Crime Lab

Date: 11 17 1957
Description: Ed Gein (1906-1984) and a police officer wait at the counter at the State Crime Lab where he was brought for lie detector and other tests or at the city ja...
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Ed Gein is Led to State Crime Lab

Date: 11 17 1957
Description: Ed Gein (1906-1984) is escorted by three law enforcement officers to the State Crime Lab, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests.
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Four Men and a Shot Gun

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Description: One man armed with a shotgun, facing a man in the doorway of a log house, and surrounded by four other men standing in the snow, also a horse and sleigh.
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Leonard Forrest, Laurel Tavern Bartender

Date: 08 16 1945
Description: Leonard Forrest, bartender and son of owner of Laurel Tavern, 2505 Monroe Street. Two black-masked bandits armed with a gun and a black jack escaped with $...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Out for Air

Date: 1923
Description: Two police officers holding rifles escort two prisoners into a paddywagon. Lining the road is a long, perspective view of an outdoor prison. Red text impri...
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Madison Drug Company Robbery

Date: 01 28 1947
Description: Emil A. Hayden, treasurer-manager of the Madison Drug Company, 654 Williamson Street, shown in the company storeroom where he had been bound and gagged by ...
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Madison Drug Company Robbery

Date: 01 28 1947
Description: Drug salesman Harold Legler, Police Officer Howard Nelson, and clerk Al Hubin (left to right), are shown standing in the storeroom doorway at the Madison D...
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Loganville Bank Robbery

Date: 02 24 1947
Description: Madison Police Officers (left to right): John Sweeney; Ervin Grahn; and George Cross; pictured at the Madison Police Station garage in front of a bank robb...
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Loganville Bank Robbery

Date: 02 24 1947
Description: Reuben Black (seated), cashier of the Loganville State bank who was held-up for $2,836 Monday noon by an armed bandit, is shown at Madison police headquart...
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Loganville Bank Robbery

Date: 02 24 1947
Description: Dressed in a flash suit purchased with part of his bank loot, Loyd D. Robertson, 26, of Tomah, confessed robber of the Loganville State bank, attempted to ...
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Alleged killers after confessing to the murder of two people. Seated are Buford Sennett, Richland Center, and Robert Winslow, Owen, standing behind them i...
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Neighbors of the Pomputis family and newspaper reporters wait on a highway near the farm where the confessed murderers were hiding.
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Buford Sennett, confessed murderer, soon after his capture at the Pomputis farm, sitting between a police officer and the driver of the car.
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Loraine Hotel Hold-up

Date: 11 24 1947
Description: Police officer Raymond P. Kurth holds the leather bag in which the robber, Max M. Feeney, carried the money stolen from the Loraine Hotel.

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