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| Date: | 03 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Notice of farm auction sale for farm and personal property of Ed Gein. The farmhouse was destroyed by fire before the auction took place. |
| 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 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. |
| Date: | 11 17 1957 |
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| Description: | Ed Gein (1906-1984) and a police officer wait at the counter at the State Crime Lab where he was brought for lie detector and other tests or at the city ja... |
| Date: | 11 17 1957 |
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| Description: | Ed Gein (1906-1984) is escorted by three law enforcement officers to the State Crime Lab, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests. |
| 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: | 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: | 06 26 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Tracy Ukena, a Wyoming prison escapee, sentenced to a three-year prison term by Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone in the U.S. District Court. He h... |
| Date: | 12 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Assistant District Attorney Robert I. Perina (left) hearing the confessions of Douglas R. Wright of Baraboo and William G. Lavine of St. Louis. The two rob... |
| Date: | 03 24 1954 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marshal Ray Schoonover leaves a hearing in Federal Court with Paul S. Hauser (left), accused of a bank hold-up in Barron County. |
| Date: | 03 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth H. Pady leaves a hearing in Federal Court. She was accused of a bank holdup in Barron County. |
| Date: | 07 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Window-breaker John O'Connor, 18, with Detective Kennety Hartwich in court. He pleaded guilty to smashing $2,210 worth of front windows at 14 State Street ... |
| Date: | 12 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Herbert Hilgendorf was sentenced to six months in jail for beating his father, Louis Hilgendorf, a town of Roxbury farmer. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | German film poster for the Italian film, "Guardie e ladri." Illustrated image of a cop wearing a uniform running while holding a gun. Around the corner is ... |
| Date: | 12 04 1953 |
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| Description: | Albert A. Hanson, facing a possible prison term on charges of adultery and receiving stolen money, ponders his fate alone before the empty jury box during ... |
| Date: | 12 04 1953 |
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| Description: | The Albert Hanson trial is serious business for jurors as they hear Attorney William J. Coyne (standing) defend Hanson. |
| Date: | 12 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Diane Nelson, 20-year-old bookkeeper, is shown reviewing with her attorney, Maurice B. Pasch, the testimony she gave as the chief prosecution witness again... |
| Date: | 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the defendant, Ralph O'Dell, accused of shooting Joseph Knock during a burglary attempt. |
| Date: | 11 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Bailiff Andrew Sampson is handing the jury's verdict of first-degree murder and burglary to Judge Edwin Wilkie at the murder trial of Ralph O'Dell, accused... |
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