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Madison Drug Company Robbery
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Drug salesman Harold Legler, Police Officer Howard Nelson, and clerk Al Hubin (left to right), are shown standing in the storeroom doorway at the Madison Drug Company, 654 Williamson Street, where they rescued the company manager from adhesive tape bindings placed on him by four armed bandits.
January 28, 1947
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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