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Smashing Illegal Gambling Devices
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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; John R. Arnold, former sheriff of Dane County and deputy U.S. Marshal; Sam Swenson, Harold Schaurer, L.D. Lewis and J.G. McClellan, investigators with the state beverage and cigaret tax division and F.J. Mattingly, senior investigator.
1948
Newhouse, John
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