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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: | 07 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Martha Finn, jail matron and wife of Sheriff Fred T. Finn, sitting at a table, reading a newspaper. Her duties consist of cooking for all the j... |
| 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: | 02 23 1931 |
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| Description: | View of a hen, a barred Plymouth Rock, found jaywalking on University Avenue, in the city jail. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Karl Armstrong with fist raised, one of four men responsible for the 1970 bombing of Sterling Hall. Photograph was taken in prison. Armstrong was apprehend... |
| 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: | 10 1910 |
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| Description: | Copy photograph of a man posing sitting in jail, probably John Deitz in Hayward. He appears to have a cast or bandage on his left hand. A young girl is sta... |
| Date: | 12 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Dane County Sheriff John R. Arnold examining the door frame of a cell in the Dane County Jail. Prisoners had attempted to pry open the door in an unsuccess... |
| 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: | 05 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Public officials inspecting the damage and debris from a fatal fire in the Dane County Jail. The fire was started by two inmates, one of whom died in the e... |
| Date: | 05 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Floyd Parker, a federal prisoner, and one of two inmates of the Dane County Jail who started the cell block fire, was rescued by sheriff's officials and ci... |
| Date: | 06 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Dane County Jail woman's bathroom, with bathtub and toilet, showing unfit conditions. |
| Date: | 06 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Dane County Jail showing metal circular stairway, the only exit from the cell blocks of the jail's second and third floors. |
| Date: | 06 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Dane County Jail corridor in men's cell block. |
| 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: | 08 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Four women in an Iron County Jail cell after a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. One woman is thumbing her nose at the camera. The arrest w... |
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