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Ed Gein at State Crime Lab

Date: 11 19 1957
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...
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World Series, Man Coming Off Fire Ladder

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Milwaukee County Stadium on the day of the first game of the 1958 World Series, between the Milwaukee Braves and the New York Yankees. A man is being lower...
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World Series, Men Around Fire Engine

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Milwaukee County Stadium on the day of the first game of the 1958 World Series, between the Milwaukee Braves and the New York Yankees. Fire fighters and po...
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John P. O'Connor

Date: 07 16 1958
Description: Window-breaker John O'Connor, 18, with Detective Kennety Hartwich in court. He pleaded guilty to smashing $2,210 worth of front windows at 14 State Street ...
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Police Recruits

Date: 10 22 1958
Description: Nineteen new police recruits are shown sitting in class. The men who are in pre-service training began classes September 16 and will graduate in January.
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Madison Business Protective Association Officials

Date: 12 08 1958
Description: The newly-formed Madison Business Protective Association, some in uniform and some plainclothed, will move about through commercial areas to check on poten...
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Fire at Kindschi Leather Company

Date: 12 07 1958
Description: A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company at 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building known as the Burrows building...
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Fire at Kindschi Leather Company

Date: 12 07 1958
Description: A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company, 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building, known as the Burrows building,...
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Three Madison Policemen Honored

Date: 05 11 1959
Description: Edward Schultz, left, director of the Wisconsin Policeman's Protective Association and Ft. Atkinson police chief is shown presenting a "meritorious service...
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Jaywalking Accident Injures Two People

Date: 07 28 1959
Description: An Illinois couple, unaware of Madison's pedestrian safety laws, were seriously injured by a car while jaywalking across East Washington Avenue. Police and...
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"Shoplifting" Seminars, Sponsored By Kroger Stores

Date: 09 15 1959
Description: The Park Hotel was host to 26 Madison area Kroger store managers where seminars were held to study shoplifting. City, county and area law enforcement offic...
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Stoughton Police Chief Clifford Kriedeman

Date: 12 22 1959
Description: Portrait of Stoughton police chief Clifford Kriedeman. He was the police chief from 1955 until his death in 1979.
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Conference on Auto Theft Investigations

Date: 02 24 1960
Description: Group portrait of Madison area law enforcement officers who attended an FBI conference on auto theft investigations. Seated, left to right: Circuit and Juv...
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Cows on Ice

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ...
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Cows on Ice

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ...
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Wisconsin Policeman's Protective Association Golf Tournament

Date: 09 06 1960
Description: Group portrait of the prize winners at the Wisconsin Policeman's Protective Association's golf tournament at the Lake Ripley Country Club in Cambridge. Sea...
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Awards for Safe Driving

Date: 06 30 1960
Description: Three Madison Railway Express agency drivers receive awards for safe driving from Capt. W.A. Randall, left, of the Madison police department. The drivers a...
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Stolen Safe from Holmes Tire and Supply Company

Date: 03 02 1961
Description: Safe robbers escaped with $1,000 in cash, $2,000 in checks, and several wrist watches when they stole a large safe from the Holmes Tire and Supply Company ...
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Police Judo Class

Date: 03 01 1961
Description: An instructor demonstrating a Judo technique for disarming a person with a gun.
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Specialty Helmet Created by Police Chief

Date: 04 20 1961
Description: Monona police chief Clifford Pfister displaying a police crash helmet with blinking red lights that he designed with the assistance of the Ray-O-Vac Compan...

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