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Governor La Follette Signing Extradition Papers
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Governor Philip La Follette in the governor's office, signing extradition papers for George W.E. Perry aka "Jiggs" "Blue Beard," with Samuel Becker, executive counsel for the governor, on the left and Edmund Drager, Vilas County District Attorney, on the right.
May 25, 1931
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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