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| 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: | 02 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster from 1972, voicing support for Karl Armstrong and his involvement in the Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 1970... |
| Date: | 12 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating for the release of the Camp McCoy 3--Tom Chase, Steve Geden, and Daniel Kreps, 3 GI's--for their involvement in the bombing of Camp McCoy... |
| 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: | 07 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Storefront of the Norris Court Grocery, 912 East Johnson Street, the site where Sadie Jackson died after being shot by alleged murderer George "Butch" King... |
| Date: | 08 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Two World War II veterans from Berwyn, Illinois, released on bail pending a new hearing, are with their lawyers. The two young men were convicted and impri... |
| Date: | 09 19 1949 |
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| Description: | Joseph C. Schabo, the watchman who lives in the Madison American Legion clubhouse at 110 East Wilson Street, is shown at left examining one of two safes th... |
| 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: | 12 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Scene along the Yahara River where the body of Max Hobert, a Madison bartender, was found. |
| Date: | 12 16 1949 |
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| Description: | The door to the Dane County District Attorney's office. District Attorney Robert W. Arthur is having the door examined for fingerprints after his claim tha... |
| 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... |
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