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| Date: | 12 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Technicians administer a lie detector test at District Attorney Fred Risser's office to be used in the James Corcoran poisoning case. |
| 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 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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 03 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Thomas Fairchild, right, former Wisconsin Attorney General, is sworn in as United States Attorney for the Western Wisconsin District. D.M. Alsad, Clerk of ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thompson sitting at his desk while signing an endorsement of the Madison observance of Crime Prevention Week. The nati... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | State patrol officers line up beside their patrol cars at Old District 1 State Patrol Field Headquarters on Highway 12. They appear to be receiving instruc... |
| Date: | 06 28 1954 |
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| Description: | James Quinn, witness of the events leading to the murder and suicide of Doris Russ and Guy Russ, talks to either police investigator John Henry or newspape... |
| Date: | 01 16 1958 |
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| Description: | The original caption states, "Edward Krueger, center, is shown as he was sentenced by Circuit Judge Richard Bardwell to five years in Green Bay state refor... |
| Date: | 04 23 1986 |
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| Description: | This image was captured during the re-enactment of a crime that took place at a convenience store on Tuesday, April 22nd, 1986. The killing of Andrew N. Ne... |
| Date: | 01 05 1965 |
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| Description: | John H. Bowers being sworn in by Judge Nathan Heffernan as Wisconsin Deputy Attorney General. |
| Date: | 08 12 1965 |
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| Description: | Fifteen images of Wisconsin Attorney General Bronson La Follette standing next to a bust of his grandfather, "Fighting Bob" La Follette. |
| Date: | 08 12 1965 |
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| Description: | A man standing and holding a coffee cup. Edmund A. Dix was sworn in as United States attorney for the western half of Wisconsin in a brief Federal Court ce... |
| Date: | 06 28 1957 |
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| Description: | City Clerk A. W. Bareis gets the first shine from Tom Sorensen after the boy and his partner, Dick McMahon (right), are told they can continue their street... |
| Date: | 09 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A motorist-eye view through the windshield towards a State Highway Patrol car parked beside a Wisconsin highway. The photographer, sitting in the backseat ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1958 |
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| Description: | Two police detectives or officers, one handling hacksaw blades and the other inspecting rope, investigating a possible burglary using these items. They are... |
| Date: | 11 21 1958 |
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| Description: | A policeman and two police cadets examine a large file of folders and papers containing warrants to violators who ignore parking and traffic arrest tickets... |
| Date: | 04 06 1959 |
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| Description: | The Madison Police and Fire Commission explores a traffic accident involving Police Chief Bruce Weatherly and witnesses' claims that he was under the influ... |
| Date: | 04 07 1959 |
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| Description: | A full room in Circuit Court #3, City-County Building, listens to testimony at the Police and Fire Commission hearing on misconduct charges against Madison... |
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