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| 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: | 02 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Demetral, Madison wrestler, teaching Officer Robert O'Brien to do an "airplane spin" toss on Officer Keith Ackley. Fifty-five Madison Police Departme... |
| Date: | 10 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Edward Marr, bank messenger for Montgomery Ward and Co., and victim of Madison's second daylight holdup in a month, is searching through the bandit picture... |
| Date: | 12 07 1946 |
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| Description: | During a march in support of the striking Local 75 of the United Automobile Workers, the police arrest one participant. |
| Date: | 12 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles H. Cashin (right) of Stevens Point being sworn in by Clerk of Court Herbert C. Hale as the U.S. Attorney for the Western Wisconsin District. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Destroying slot machines and other illegal gambling devices at Law Park. From L to R: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigaret tax division; ... |
| Date: | 09 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Governor Goodland conferring with District Attorney John Grindell and Sheriff Aloys Klaas about gambling in Grant County. |
| Date: | 01 30 1947 |
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| Description: | Observing a poster stating: "Rain, Sleet, Snow, slow!," are Police Officer Walter Randall, with Edwin B. Petersen, winner of the "Wisconsin State Journal's... |
| Date: | 02 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Kenneth H. Sidwell , 17 North First Street, shown talking through the window of his car to Madison police officer Harold Nelson on his motorcycle. Mr. Sid... |
| Date: | 02 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Madison Police Officers (left to right): John Sweeney; Ervin Grahn; and George Cross; pictured at the Madison Police Station garage in front of a bank robb... |
| 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: | 03 08 1947 |
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| Description: | Robert O'Brien, police officer on motorcycle, in front of Police Station. |
| 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 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Shorewood Hills marshalls Lee Cripps and Frank Ashworth measuring skid marks at an accident scene. |
| Date: | 12 13 1948 |
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| Description: | The street directory for Maple Bluff was delivered by Marshall A.J. Taft around the Christmas season. The contents of the directory reveal the growth of Ma... |
| Date: | 06 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Police Chief Bruce Weatherly meeting with members of the National Federation of Republican Women's Clubs who were touring government offices while in Madis... |
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