The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-25
Big Posse In Pursuit Forces the Vegas to Climb High Ledge, Where They Drop the Bag of Plunder and Then Start to Dodge the Fusilade of Bullets.
One of Them Mounts Horse and Drops Dead from Saddle, Another Commits Suicide in Clump of Bushes and the Third Captured, After Being Wounded in Both Hands
Especial from United Press.

, Lynn, Mass, June 25.-Four men dead by bullets and a town seething with such excitement he has been almost unheard of since the James gang robbed and pillaged in the west, is the result in this quiet New Eng land town today, of the most daring hold-up in the history of Massachu- setts. The dead: Thomas H. Landre- , gan, partner in the big shoe firm of iWelsh & Landregan, shot dead; Po- liceman James A. Carroll, fatally wounded, died within an hour; un- iknown Yeggman, shielded when sur rounded by posse; Abbe Apson, "A, East 22nd street: New York. 1egg- ! The wounded: Unknown young man. wounded in both hands, cap fured by police ala .sa.a :. It was just. after the opening of the Central National Bank that the explosion came. Landregan drew ss.- ' OG0 for the weekly payroll of his firm when the teller's window open ed, placed it in a satchel and, accom- panied by Policeman James A. Car roll, started for his factory. Just as [ the pair arrived at the corner of Will How and Oxford street three men .closed in behind them. Drawing a blackjack one struck Carroll terri i f1c blow on the back of the head. The policeman staggered and as he went down the other two Yeggs 1 grabbed the satcheI from Landregan. But the merchant was game and hung grimly on. Seeing that a fight was imminent the two Yeggs at once dead with three bullets through his shead. Carroll, who had joined in the struggle, fell before the pistol of the third robber. with bullet through his breast and the three, carrying the satchel with them, fled.
 Attracted by the firing, scores of people arrived on the spot in an in- stant and a posse was soon hard on fthe trail of the robbers who were firing at heads which appeared at swindows. They ran to a high ledge, a short distance from the town, which is known as High Rock. They start ed the climb and with the shouts of their pursuers growing closer, they top of the hill. lodging behind some houses on the other side.
 Here the trio found @ horse be- longing to Miss Bessie Baker stand ing at the curb. One of them mount ed the animal and as Miss Baker ran to stop the theft, two of the Yeggs Hired point blank at her. She was unwounded but lodged behind a fence and the robbers, one mounted and the others holding to the straps,
 
 Just as they passed the Lynn hos pital, an auto, with three citizens and Policeman Arthur Thompson in it, turned the corner and all four open ed fire The Yegg who rode the :1o-se fell dead from the saddle and the others doubling in their tracks, struck across through a clump of houses in an effort to avoid the hail of bullets which now began to fall on all sides.
 With every policeman in the city and 8 mob of nearly 500 civilians in sclose pursuit, the two remaining rob- bers ran into a swamp in what is known as Pevere's Field and the pur- .suers at once commenced to sur round it. Within a few minutes a single shot was heard from the brush and then the police closed in. Spread out like a fan and taking advantage of every shrub and bush, the blue coats went through the mud and wa ter of the swampS, guns barking with every step. Shots from the bush an- swered their volleys. After rush ing dead and the other standing idly by with an empty revolver. All his ammunition was gone. He was nur- ried to police headquarters here but he absolutely refused to give an ac- count of himself or say who were his companions One of them, how ever, he who was shot from his sad dIe by Policeman Thompson, was Identified later as Abbe Apson, 24, of East 22nd street, New York, and all three are believed to be we'll known to turn the trick which brought death to two of them and will bring a life sentence or a seat in the death chair to the third.