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| Date: | 07 08 1940 |
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| Description: | Prisoner photograph of Wilfred Leigh Mills, inmate number 25714, an English truck driver convicted of larceny. |
| Date: | 02 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Prisoner William Joseph Hogan, inmate 28820, a truck driver convicted on two counts of assault with intent to rob. |
| Date: | 02 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Prisoner photograph of Virgil Valorous Ishmael, inmate number 28858, a truck driver convicted of issuing worthless checks. |
| Date: | 02 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Dressed in a flash suit purchased with part of his bank loot, Loyd D. Robertson, 26, of Tomah, confessed robber of the Loganville State bank, attempted to ... |
| Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Alleged killers after confessing to the murder of two people. Seated are Buford Sennett, Richland Center, and Robert Winslow, Owen, standing behind them i... |
| Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Edward (Ace) Fischer, prisoner Robert Winslow, and Officer Ray Case, seated in an automobile with a man and woman looking in the window. |
| 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: | 11 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Max M. Feeney, Loraine Hotel robber, a parolee from Indiana, who was captured by Officer Raymond P. Kurth five minutes after the hold-up. |
| Date: | 02 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Angelo Mazzara, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, formerly of Madison. He has confessed to breaking into the Old Heidelberg Tavern, 1206 Regent Street, through ... |
| Date: | 04 23 1948 |
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| Description: | African-American man, Norman M., Ward (aka Paul Nokomis) 18-year-old Chicagoan who was sent to jail to await sentence when he pleaded guilty to larceny and... |
| 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: | 01 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Ordie A. Juve, 86 Fair Oaks Avenue, seated at lower left during a hearing in the court of Superior Judge Roy H. Proctor to determine if he should be bound ... |
| 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: | 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... |
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