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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
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| Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
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| Description: | One man armed with a shotgun, facing a man in the doorway of a log house, and surrounded by three other men standing in the snow. |
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| Description: | One man armed with a shotgun, facing a man in the doorway of a log house, and surrounded by four other men standing in the snow, also a horse and sleigh. |
| Date: | 01 28 1947 |
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| Description: | 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 ... |
| Date: | 01 28 1947 |
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| Description: | Drug salesman Harold Legler, Police Officer Howard Nelson, and clerk Al Hubin (left to right), are shown standing in the storeroom doorway at the Madison D... |
| Date: | 11 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Police officer Raymond P. Kurth holds the leather bag in which the robber, Max M. Feeney, carried the money stolen from the Loraine Hotel. |
| Date: | 11 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Max M. Feeney, Loraine Hotel robber, a parolee from Indiana, who was captured by Officer Raymond P. Kurth five minutes after the hold-up. |
| Date: | 11 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Margaret Foley, left, and Teresa White, right, are shown behind the cashier's window at Hotel Loraine where they were forced at gun point to turn over $154... |
| Date: | 04 23 1948 |
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| Description: | African-American man, Norman M., Ward (aka Paul Nokomis) 18-year-old Chicagoan who was sent to jail to await sentence when he pleaded guilty to larceny and... |
| Date: | 08 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Vandalized tombstone following a beer party held in Evergreen Hill Cemetery, on June 12, 1948. |
| Date: | 08 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Vandalized tombstone following a beer party held in Evergreen Hill Cemetery on June 12. |
| Date: | 10 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joseph R. Valentine, operator of Club Chanticleer in Middleton that was robbed. |
| Date: | 10 30 1948 |
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| Description: | John Ochalle, employee of the Durfee Brothers Roofing Company, who discovered evidence of a burglary at the company's place of business at 1804 South Park ... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Daniel A. Foxvog, manager of the Piggly Wiggly super market, 1860 East Washington Avenue, is shown looking at where a safe stood before burglars carried it... |
| Date: | 11 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Frank Conner, manager of the Fiore Coal and Oil Co., Filling Station, 601 West Washington Avenue, following a robbery. He is standing in front of an empty ... |
| Date: | 11 04 1948 |
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| Description: | John Vasas, Milwaukee, arrested after he robbed the Fiore Coal and Oil Company Filling Station, 601 West Washington Avenue. He is standing in the hallway o... |
| Date: | 01 11 1949 |
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| Description: | "Ken Ahrens (left), photographer at the Star Photo Shop, 924 Williamson Street, with R.E. Mattison, the shop owner, viewing the cash box which Ahrens preve... |
| Date: | 05 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Ray Case, former County Traffic Officer, walks down a cobblestone walkway with his bloodhound, Bounding Bessie. The dog was used to trail an escaped jewel ... |
| Date: | 07 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Julius J. Jackson, 1049 East Johnson, seated, with Acting Lieut. Robert O'Brien of the Madison police department in the background. Jackson is the husband ... |
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