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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. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
| Date: | 10 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Lee Finger and Ferdinand Gritzmacher, two witnesses to Sun Prairie bank holdup. |
| Date: | 10 26 1934 |
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| Description: | Welding equipment in back seat of bank robbery suspects' car. |
| Date: | 10 29 1933 |
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| Description: | Front view International delivery truck. "Ecco Food Products" "Marshfield Grocer Co. Inc. Wholesalers Marshfield Wisconsin." Taken next to Dane County Cou... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 09 11 1931 |
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| Description: | Alfred Deering, on the steps in front of the Doylestown Bank, holding his hat. He received a wound to the head during the Doylestown bank robbery. Men are ... |
| Date: | 02 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Carl Frey, 28, Stoughton. He confessed to the murder of Albion postmaster Frank Kelling. |
| Date: | 04 17 1931 |
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| Description: | First National Bank of Edgerton officers, who witnessed robbery, posing and standing outdoors in front of the bank. |
| Date: | 04 17 1931 |
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| Description: | A male cashier, with bandaged head, was injured in the robbery. He is standing outside of the bank that was robbed. |
| 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: | 08 24 1970 |
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| Description: | Two men in hard hats observe the ruins of Sterling Hall after it was bombed. Unfortunately, despite an attempt to detonate the bomb when the building wa... |
| Date: | 11 19 1957 |
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| Description: | Law enforcement officials escorting Ed Gein (1906-1984) to the state crime lab, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests. |
| Date: | 11 17 1957 |
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| Description: | Ed Gein (1906-1984) is escorted by three law enforcement officers to the State Crime Laboratory, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests. |
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