Browse Items · Decatur Public Library Local History Photo Collection

Photograph of crime scene of Stella Ware murder.

Scene of Stella Ware murder near East Decatur St. 1911. Photo ran Review 5/8/1911.

Tags: 1911, City Carpet Cleaning Works, Crime, Decatur IL, East Decatur St., Herald and Review, I.C. Tracks, Murder, Photo File: Crime, Stella Ware, Wood Dish Factory

Photograph of the Saratoga Club gambling police raid in 1938.

Tags: 1938, Crime, Decatur IL, Gambling, Photo File: Crime, Police, Raid, Saratoga Club

Photograph of slot machines being destroyed in October of 1934.

Tags: 1934, Crime, Decatur IL, Gambling, Photo File: Crime, Police, Raid, Slot Machines

Photograph of a gambling raid in 1936.

Tags: 1936, Crime, Decatur IL, Gambling, Photo File: Crime, Police, Raid

Photograph of the grand jury for a gambling raid in 1936.

Tags: 1936, Crime, Decatur IL, Gambling, Grand Jury, Photo File: Crime, Police, Raid

Photograph of slot machines raided by police in the 1940's.

Tags: 1940's, Crime, Decatur IL, Gambling, Photo File: Crime, Police, Raid, Slot Machines

Photograph of a Decatur gambling raid by police in 1951.

Tags: 1951, Crime, Decatur IL, Gambling, Photo File: Crime, Police, Raid

Photograph of the Townsend home after the 1940 murder/suicide of Ezra Townsend and Amy Townsend.

Tags: 1940, Amy Townsend, Crime, Ezra Townsend, farm, house, Murder, Photo File: Crime, Suicide, Townsend

Photograph of Ezra Townsend from the crime scene of the murder/suicide of Ezra Townsend and Amy Townsend.

Tags: 1940, Amy Townsend, Crime, Ezra Townsend, Murder, Photo File: Crime, Suicide, Townsend

Photograph of Amy Townsend after she was shot by Ezra Townsend from the crime scene of the Townsend murder/suicide of 1940.

Tags: 1940, Amy Townsend, Crime, Ezra Townsend, Murder, Photo File: Crime, Suicide, Townsend