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| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 07 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Seven women in an Iron County Jail cell after a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. The arrest warrants were for gambling and prostitution. |
| Date: | 08 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Five women in an Iron County Jail cell after a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. The arrest warrants were for gambling and prostitution. |
| Date: | 08 05 1942 |
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| Description: | John M. Califano, operator of the Blackhawk Bar, as he was fingerprinted on Wednesday by FBI agent (face blacked out) at the Iron County jail, following a ... |
| Date: | 11 24 1963 |
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| Description: | Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Dallas: This is the complete negative of the dramatic scene captured by Times Herald Staff Photographe... |
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| Description: | This map is pen-and-ink on tracing paper with a mounted legend and shows the Kickapoo River, Indian mounds, the 1st Fort Crawford, an Indian Agency, the si... |
| Date: | 12 26 1961 |
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| Description: | Jailer Max Koons pointing to the hastily-repaired ceiling in the lobby of the Dane County Jail which two inmates tried to claw open during an attempted esc... |
| Date: | 12 26 1961 |
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| Description: | Undersheriff Jack Leslie examining the cell lock which Lawrence Nutley managed to thwart in an attempted escape from the Dane County Jail. Nutley and Willi... |
| Date: | 12 26 1961 |
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| Description: | Jailer Ralph Chesemore examining the control room buttons that were pushed to unlock a series of doors leading to the Dane County Jail lobby in an unsucces... |
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