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| Date: | 07 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Madison detectives quiz two men who have confessed to having committed fifteen burglaries in the Madison area. Left to right: Vann Millege Kidd, Texarkana,... |
| 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: | 12 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Three men in court with their attorney listen to their sentences for stealing the Durfee Brothers Roofing Company safe. From right are Louis and Kenneth Di... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 07 10 1949 |
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| Description: | George "Butch" King in handcuffs, after being questioned for the murder of Sadie Jackson, wife of Julius J. Jackson. In the background is Detective Captain... |
| 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. ... |
| Date: | 11 28 1949 |
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| Description: | County officers and state crime lab officials searching for clues in the pasture near Fitch Hatchery road, where Bernice Johnston was beaten and abandoned.... |
| Date: | 02 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Police Investigator Ralph Nedderman is shown examining the torch-burned safe at the John Deere Farmers Implement Co., 110 N. Thornton Avenue. Two other loc... |
| Date: | 02 15 1950 |
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| Description: | George Beecraft, 23, of 121 S. Marquette Street is shown (right) pleading not guilty before Superior Judge Roy H. Proctor to charges of safecracking at the... |
| Date: | 05 18 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the George "Butch" King murder trial jury. King, accused of the murder of Sadie Jackson, was declared not guilty by reason of insanity a... |
| Date: | 09 19 1955 |
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| Description: | Roy Bryant, one of the two men charged with the murder of Emmett Till who had allegedly whistled at Bryant's wife, Carolyn. She sits at Bryant's right, and... |
| Date: | 09 19 1955 |
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| Description: | Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. Milam, (left to right) with their attorney on the opening day of their trial for the murder of Emmett Till. The 14-ye... |
| Date: | 09 22 1955 |
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| Description: | Willie Reed, an 18-year-old "surprise" witness who bravely testified during the murder trial of 14-year-old Emmett Till, correctly identifying the white de... |
| Date: | 11 19 1951 |
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| Description: | Corporal Don Price Jr., Truax Field soldier, is shown at far right as he pleads guilty to larceny charges involving credit union funds in Superior Court. A... |
| Date: | 11 19 1951 |
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| Description: | Alice Yngsdahl, center right, is shown in Superior Court with her attorney, W. Curtis Farmer, as Court Clerk Virginia McRedmond, right, reads the complaint... |
| Date: | 02 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thompson sitting at his desk while signing an endorsement of the Madison observance of Crime Prevention Week. The nati... |
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| Description: | A view of four beheaded men lying on the ground with a group of officers standing behind, posing for the camera. A man to the left in the central group hol... |
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