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Robert Grilley Receiving Prize

Date: 07 14 1935
Description: Robert Grilley, holding his model airplane, receiving first place mahogany plaque in Junior Division of "Jimmy Allen" model airplane races at Royal Airport...
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Sheriff Finn with Sledgehammer

Date: 07 11 1933
Description: Sheriff Finn holding sledgehammer used to break open the safe of Odin Tofsrud, carpenter and truck farmer, who was murdered during the theft of his safe by...
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Judge Patrick T. Stone

Date: 06 17 1933
Description: Portrait of U.S. Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone sitting at his desk.
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Lie Detector Test

Date: 12 04 1931
Description: Technicians administer a lie detector test at District Attorney Fred Risser's office to be used in the James Corcoran poisoning case.
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New Police Chief Candidate

Date: 09 30 1930
Description: New police chief candidate, William H. McCormick, sitting behind a desk.
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Judge Proctor's Courtroom

Date: 1933
Description: Judge Roy H. Proctor, Superior Court, in the Dane County Court House.
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Sheldon Walling

Date: 1856
Description: Quarter-length oval portrait of Sheldon Walling. He was born on December 15, 1795, in Old Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut. He moved to Wisconsin on ...
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Perry H. Smith

Date: 1858
Description: Oval quarter-length portrait of Perry H. Smith.
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Ed Gein Escorted to State Crime Lab

Date: 11 17 1957
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.
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Judge Elmer E. Barlow, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Date: 03 20 1945
Description: Judge Elmer E. Barlow, in his robes, sitting in his office, as a member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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Lieut. Walter Thompson Recieving Kemper Foundation Award

Date: 07 27 1949
Description: Lieut. Walter Thompson, an officer with the Madison police force, receiving the $650 Kemper Foundation fellowship check to attend the traffic police admini...
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Don Eisenberg in Court

Date: 06 16 1980
Description: Don Eisenberg, defense attorney, in the court room during the Barbara Hoffman murder trial.
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Muir Knoll Dedication Ceremony

Date: 06 18 1918
Description: Dedication ceremony for Muir Knoll on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Judge Milton S. Griswold is speaking at flag-draped podium, and a ...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court

Date: 01 03 1954
Description: Group portrait of the members of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Standing left to right: Justices Edward Gehl, George R. Currie, Roland J. Steinle and Timothy...
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Putting Goodrich Tire Sticker On Police Car

Date: 06 11 1956
Description: Two men look on as a third man crouches to apply a Goodrich Tire sticker to the back of a (Ford) police car. One of the men looking on is wearing a police ...
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Police Recruits

Date: 10 22 1958
Description: Nineteen new police recruits are shown sitting in class. The men who are in pre-service training began classes September 16 and will graduate in January.
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Warming Up for Judo

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Description: A police student helps another student warm up for judo instruction at the YMCA as another man supervises.
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Mickey Hayes Murder Trial

Date: 09 20 1960
Description: Portrait of Circuit Judge Russell E. Hanson, presiding judge at the Jon (Mickey) Hayes double murder trial. Hayes is accused of shooting his father and ano...
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Henry Chapman Baker

Date: 1900
Description: Quarter-length engraving of Henry Baker in profile. Baker was police chief of Madison from 1897-1907.
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Two Year Old Girl Abducted from Her Front Yard by Salesman

Date: 04 01 1964
Description: Thomas F. Howard (R) standing with his attorney, Richard E. Lent (L) during a court hearing on charges of abduction of a 2-year-old girl from in front of h...

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