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Bernice Johnston Death
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County officers and state crime lab officials searching for clues in the pasture near Fitch Hatchery road, where Bernice Johnston was beaten and abandoned. The investigators are, left to right: County Officer Emil Schmale: Evan Chambers and Don M. Harding of the crime laboratory; and Officer E. W. Kelzenberg.
November 28, 1949
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Bernice Johnston Death
November 28, 1949
County Traffic officers, E. W. Kelzenberg and Emil Schmale, and Evan Chambers of the state crime laboratory looking at the death scene of Bernice Johnson. The site is a ditch next to Fish Hatchery ...
Kapec Apple Orchard
August 9, 1957
View of the Martin P. Kapec apple orchard along Verona Road in Fitchburg.
Dane County Highway Police
May 28, 1948
By 1934 the Dane County Highway Police staff had increased to four officers, was boosted to nine in 1937, and in three years to fifteen. The officers shown are Dane County Police members: front row...
Airplane Wreck
February 21, 1947
Allen Kielhold (left) and Sam McGaw are shown standing beside the wreckage of the two-seater plane from which they pulled Carl Anderson after he crashed the plane into a road in the town of Fitchburg.
Klinke Hatchery
January 1946
Exterior view of seven buildings of Klinke Hatchery, 3255 Monona Drive, with unidentified man in doorway of one building.
Sadie Jackson Murder
July 10, 1949
Unidentified police officer inspecting the truck owned by George "Butch" King, suspected killer of Sadie Jackson.
