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| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | San Francisco police arrest a "suspicious woman" and help her into an International Metro Wagon #689 truck during their Golden Gate beat. |
| Date: | 09 12 1933 |
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| Description: | A group of people are gathering in front of the DeForest State Bank, site of a robbery. |
| Date: | 05 15 1933 |
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| Description: | Jenny Justo, 921 Spring Street, saying goodbye to her dog before leaving for a year in the Milwaukee jail. |
| Date: | 09 11 1931 |
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| Description: | Crowd standing on the street and sidewalk in front of the Doylestown Bank after a robbery. |
| Date: | 02 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Wilford Rogers, 20, and Leslie Straus, 21, both of Mendota, Illinois. The two are confessed murderers of Albion postmaster, Frank H. Kelling, standing on t... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Robbers, guns drawn, escort the engineer from the locomotive in a scene from The Great Train Robbery. |
| Date: | 09 1917 |
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| Description: | South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Black & white lithograph by Milwaukee lithographer Louis Kurz depicting the Madison Turners or Turnverein at a shooting party on the Madison lakefront. Th... |
| Date: | 07 19 1962 |
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| Description: | Inspection of Wisconsin State Highway patrolmen. |
| Date: | 11 17 1957 |
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| Description: | Ed Gein (1906-1984) is escorted by three law enforcement officers to the State Crime Lab, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests. |
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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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Two police officers holding rifles escort two prisoners into a paddywagon. Lining the road is a long, perspective view of an outdoor prison. Red text impri... |
| Date: | 02 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Madison Police Officers (left to right): John Sweeney; Ervin Grahn; and George Cross; pictured at the Madison Police Station garage in front of a bank robb... |
| Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Neighbors of the Pomputis family and newspaper reporters wait on a highway near the farm where the confessed murderers were hiding. |
| Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Buford Sennett, confessed murderer, soon after his capture at the Pomputis farm, sitting between a police officer and the driver of the car. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two young boys sitting in a car wearing hats and sunglasses, play cops and robbers. One of the boys is thought to be Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison. App... |
| 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: | 07 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Unidentified police officer inspecting the truck owned by George "Butch" King, suspected killer of Sadie Jackson. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Men hold guns up to the driver of an International D-40 truck marked "Decatur Fast Freight" in a hijacking scene staged by the Chicago Police Department. A... |
| Date: | 11 28 1949 |
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| Description: | County Traffic officers, E. W. Kelzenberg and Emil Schmale, and Evan Chambers of the state crime laboratory looking at the death scene of Bernice Johnson. ... |
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