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. |
Date: | 05 11 1955 |
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Description: | Chalk lines in the foreground mark the spot where White Elephant Bar owner was shot. Police and detectives conferred in the background after assembling inv... |
Date: | 01 1924 |
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Description: | Gerald J. Boileau, assistant district attorney, and George Lippert, district attorney, and three other men, exhibiting slot machines seized during a raid i... |
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: | 11 21 1956 |
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Description: | Uniformed police officers looking over a laid out map with potential escape routes. |
Date: | 11 19 1957 |
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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... |
Date: | 11 28 1936 |
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Description: | Portrait of John (Jack) Albright, former owner of the Club Monterey and one-time king of Madison gamblers, in jail, charged with keeping a gambling house, ... |
Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson is opening confiscated slot machines to extract money, and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, is smashing other confisc... |
Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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Description: | Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, using a sledge hammer to smash a confiscated slot machine, with Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson looking on. |
Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, with confiscated whiffle board and roulette wheel. |
Date: | 07 15 1933 |
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Description: | Portrait of Cecil LaValla, sitting in a chair at the county jail, suspect in the murder of Odin Tofsrud. |
Date: | 07 11 1933 |
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Description: | Sheriff Finn holding sledgehammer used to break open the safe of Odin Tofsrud, carpenter and truck farmer, who was murdered during the theft of his safe by... |
Date: | 12 04 1931 |
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Description: | Technicians administer a lie detector test at District Attorney Fred Risser's office to be used in the James Corcoran poisoning case. |
Date: | 10 12 1931 |
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Description: | Jesse Smith is on the job as desk sergeant at the Madison Police Department. |
Date: | 10 12 1931 |
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Description: | Gladys Heacock, escapee from Indiana State School for Girls, who pleaded guilty to stealing a State car, and another woman sitting in the Dane County jail. |
Date: | 01 30 1931 |
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Description: | Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ... |
Date: | 12 30 1930 |
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Description: | Myron Stephanson, accused burglar, holding his head in his hands while sitting under a notice titled: "Wanted for Bank Robbery" at the police station. |
Date: | 11 07 1930 |
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Description: | Tom Newbury, 22, Reedsburg, sentenced to life at Waupun for killing Royal Thurber, 44, Reedsburg. |
Date: | 09 06 1930 |
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Description: | Prisoner, Fred Deauchamp, age 29, accused robber of nurse's residence at Wisconsin General Hospital, and police officer standing outdoors. |
Date: | 08 05 1942 |
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Description: | Women are booked for prostitution by state agents at the Iron County jail after vice raids at Hurley-area taverns on a Tuesday night. |
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