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Martha Finn, Jail Matron
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Portrait of Martha Finn, jail matron and wife of Sheriff Fred T. Finn, sitting at a table, reading a newspaper. Her duties consist of cooking for all the jail inmates as well as caring for women prisoners and ill prisoners. She also cares for her family of four children.
July 7, 1933
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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Cecil LaValla
July 15, 1933
Portrait of Cecil LaValla, sitting in a chair at the county jail, suspect in the murder of Odin Tofsrud.
Mrs. Hugh O'Neill
November 28, 1933
Portrait of elderly Mrs. Hugh O'Neill, lying in bed after losing her life savings of $610, which had been in a bag pinned to her undergarments. 917 Chandler Street.
Sheriff Finn with Sledgehammer
July 11, 1933
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 several men who drove off with it.
Jennie and Lena Justo
May 15, 1933
Jennie Justo of 921 Spring Street in the Greenbush, wearing a hat, says goodbye to her mother, Lena Justo, as she leaves for a year in the Milwaukee jail.
Mrs. Thiel
September 28, 1933
Portrait of elderly Mrs. Thiel, Mrs. J. Randall's mother.
X-mas Tree at the Dane County Jail
December 20, 1960
Deputies decorated a Christmas tree in the Dane County jail chapel and jail matron Anne Frazier played the chapel organ for prisoners meditating in the chapel.
