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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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sheriff John MacKenzie poses in front of the Portage jail with his staff. |
| 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: | 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: | 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 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Ernest F. Burmeister, Dane County's "boy" sheriff from 1901-1903 and deputy and turnkey in 1891, is shown holding the keys to the old Dane County jail and ... |
| 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: | 1948 |
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| Description: | James Dombrowski (center), head of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), leaving the Birmingham jail with Doris Senk and the Rev. C. Herbert Ol... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group posing on lawn outside of the large brick building with a steep hip roof. Four men are identified (from left to right) as the turnkey, William MacKen... |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk man, two children, and a dog are standing outside a large brick building with bars over the windows. Identified as probably John Mike and the ch... |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, (in bow tie) and Rev. J.S. Phifer, congratulate each other after their release from jail. The two men had been imprisoned together... |
| 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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