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| Date: | 02 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thompson sitting at his desk while signing an endorsement of the Madison observance of Crime Prevention Week. The nati... |
| Date: | 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Madison Detective Elroy Beckman, who was questioned during the murder trial of Ralph O'Dell, accused of shooting Joseph Knock during a burglary... |
| Date: | 12 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Assistant District Attorney Robert I. Perina (left) hearing the confessions of Douglas R. Wright of Baraboo and William G. Lavine of St. Louis. The two rob... |
| Date: | 02 01 1958 |
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| Description: | Policeman (out of frame) interviewing a possible burglary suspect. |
| Date: | 11 18 1958 |
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| Description: | A juror uses a book to rest her feet on during a trial of tavern owner Ray W. Karasek. |
| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Circuit Judge Edwin Wilkie who presided over the murder trial of Ralph O'Dell. |
| Date: | 09 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Three firemen are spraying water on a fire at the abandoned North Western Railway ice house, located on South Brearly Street along the railroad tracks betw... |
| Date: | 03 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth H. Pady leaves a hearing in Federal Court. She was accused of a bank holdup in Barron County. |
| Date: | 12 04 1953 |
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| Description: | The Albert Hanson trial is serious business for jurors as they hear Attorney William J. Coyne (standing) defend Hanson. |
| Date: | 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the defendant, Ralph O'Dell, accused of shooting Joseph Knock during a burglary attempt. |
| Date: | 02 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Police Investigator Ralph Nedderman is shown examining the torch-burned safe at the John Deere Farmers Implement Co., 110 N. Thornton Avenue. Two other loc... |
| Date: | 02 15 1950 |
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| Description: | George Beecraft, 23, of 121 S. Marquette Street is shown (right) pleading not guilty before Superior Judge Roy H. Proctor to charges of safecracking at the... |
| Date: | 03 24 1954 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marshal Ray Schoonover leaves a hearing in Federal Court with Paul S. Hauser (left), accused of a bank hold-up in Barron County. |
| Date: | 11 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Kathy O'Dell, wife of the defendant, is shown crying in her husband's arms after the guilty verdict was read. |
| Date: | 04 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Superior Judge Roy H. Procter reading police reports and them dismissing charges against 54 students charged with disorderly contact at a Langdon Street mo... |
| Date: | 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Winifred Ottum, one of the jurors who are experiencing restrictions to their personal freedom during the long murder trial of Ralph O'Dell. |
| Date: | 11 19 1957 |
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| Description: | Law enforcement officials escorting Ed Gein to the State Crime Lab, 917 University Avenue, for lie detector and other tests. |
| Date: | 11 19 1951 |
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| Description: | Alice Yngsdahl, center right, is shown in Superior Court with her attorney, W. Curtis Farmer, as Court Clerk Virginia McRedmond, right, reads the complaint... |
| Date: | 06 26 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Tracy Ukena, a Wyoming prison escapee, sentenced to a three-year prison term by Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone in the U.S. District Court. He h... |
| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Darrell MacIntyre, attorney for the defense in the murder trial of Ralph O'Dell, who was accused of shooting Joseph Knock during a burglary att... |
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