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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
| Date: | 05 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Chalk lines in the foreground mark the spot where White Elephant Bar owner was shot. Police and detectives conferred in the background after assembling inv... |
| Date: | 01 1924 |
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| Description: | Gerald J. Boileau, assistant district attorney, and George Lippert, district attorney, and three other men, exhibiting slot machines seized during a raid i... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | San Francisco police arrest a "suspicious woman" and help her into an International Metro Wagon #689 truck during their Golden Gate beat. |
| Date: | 11 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Uniformed police officers looking over a laid out map with potential escape routes. |
| Date: | 11 19 1957 |
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| Description: | Ed Gein (1906-1984) signing paperwork at the state crime lab where he was brought for lie detector and other tests or at the city jail where he was held ov... |
| Date: | 10 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Jesse Smith is on the job as desk sergeant at the Madison Police Department. |
| Date: | 01 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ... |
| Date: | 12 30 1930 |
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| Description: | Myron Stephanson, accused burglar, holding his head in his hands while sitting under a notice titled: "Wanted for Bank Robbery" at the police station. |
| Date: | 09 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Prisoner, Fred Deauchamp, age 29, accused robber of nurse's residence at Wisconsin General Hospital, and police officer standing outdoors. |
| Date: | 08 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Women are booked for prostitution by state agents at the Iron County jail after vice raids at Hurley-area taverns on a Tuesday night. |
| Date: | 11 19 1957 |
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| Description: | Law enforcement officials escorting Ed Gein (1906-1984) to the state crime lab, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests. |
| Date: | 11 17 1957 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 11 17 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 17 1957 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 28 1947 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 24 1947 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 24 1947 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Edward (Ace) Fischer, prisoner Robert Winslow, and Officer Ray Case, seated in an automobile with a man and woman looking in the window. |
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