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Madison Drug Company Robbery
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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 four armed bandits who had looted a thousand dollars worth of morphine-type narcotics.
January 28, 1947
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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