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| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson is opening confiscated slot machines to extract money, and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, is smashing other confisc... |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, using a sledge hammer to smash a confiscated slot machine, with Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson looking on. |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, with confiscated whiffle board and roulette wheel. |
| Date: | 07 11 1933 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Finn holding sledgehammer used to break open the safe of Odin Tofsrud, carpenter and truck farmer, who was murdered during the theft of his safe by... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | View of a woman as she was loaded into the agent's car after a raid at Rae's Blackhawk Bar. She is hiding her face in her coat. |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Scene in rural schoolyard as Sheriff Sam Giovanoni swore in 48 Beverage Tax Agents as Iron County Deputies on Tuesday night, just before a a sweeping raid ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | John Nutter, Undersheriff of Marathon County. He may have played a role in the sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. The arrest warrants were f... |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | The original caption states: "Dane County sheriff's officials survey about $300 worth of auto parts and other merchandise recovered from members of a juven... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Bare-fisted Gallagher (played by William Desmond) stands in full Western costume (cowboy hat, plaid shirt, bandana neckerchief, charro chaps, leather wrist... |
| Date: | 04 28 1961 |
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| Description: | Undersheriff Jack Leslie (left) receiving information from Herbert Wagner, manager of the Dane branch of the State Bank of Lodi, about the recent robbery o... |
| Date: | 08 24 1961 |
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| Description: | Three Jefferson County Sheriff Department officers and a search volunteer posing with two bloodhounds that took part in a manhunt for a suspect from an inc... |
| Date: | 08 24 1961 |
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| Description: | Captain Harry Wyatt, left, and Deputy Sheriff Mike Spencer bring prisoner Lawrence Nutley, of Chicago, to the Dane County jail in Madison. The prisoner was... |
| Date: | 12 26 1961 |
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| Description: | Jailer Max Koons pointing to the hastily-repaired ceiling in the lobby of the Dane County Jail which two inmates tried to claw open during an attempted esc... |
| Date: | 12 26 1961 |
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| Description: | Undersheriff Jack Leslie examining the cell lock which Lawrence Nutley managed to thwart in an attempted escape from the Dane County Jail. Nutley and Willi... |
| Date: | 12 26 1961 |
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| Description: | Jailer Ralph Chesemore examining the control room buttons that were pushed to unlock a series of doors leading to the Dane County Jail lobby in an unsucces... |
| Date: | 03 02 1962 |
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| Description: | Sauk County Policeman Fred Bayer, in uniform, using a pointer stick while testifying at the trial of William Welter, Lawrence Nutley, and Richard Nickl. Th... |
| Date: | 02 06 1964 |
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| Description: | Deputy Sheriff Russell Chesemore shows some of the rubber hoses, a switchblade knife, and a bat-club confiscated from Madison West and Verona High School s... |
| Date: | 04 06 1968 |
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| Description: | Two men assisting two children in firing guns. Caption reads: "Shooting on a rifle range is part of the program for the Sauk county junior deputy sheriff p... |
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