The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-07-08
MURDERS NOT
PREMEDITATED
Claim Of Yeggs Who Killed
Manufacturer and Policeman
DESPERATE TRAGEDY IN LYNN

Police Recover $4,000 Which Was
Stolen, Kill One of the Desperadoes,
Put Bullet In Head of Another and
Land Remaining Member of Gang
After Preventing Lynching by In
furiated Crowd
Lynn, Mass. June 81. Both of the
surviving members of the bandit band
that murdered Thomas A. Landregan,
a shoe manufacturer, and Patrolman
James H \ Carroll Saturday, declare
that the killing was not premeditated
They both admit, however that they
came here from Russia, where one
was smuggler, bent on crime.
Not until the three bandits saw
Landregan and Carroll coming from
the Lynn National bank with a satchel
which they rightly surmised contained
money with which Landregan was to
pay his employees, did they decide to
rob and shoot, they said.
According to the story, Wasili
Ivanowsld, who is at Lynn police sta
ton with the top of a finger shot off,
told, through an Interpreter, that the
! trio first visited Chelsea, and after
hanging around that city for some
time for someone to rob they pro-
ceeded to Lynn.
They had not been in Lynn long
when they saw Landregan and his
guard coming from the bank with the
heavy bag, and decided upon the at
tack which was carried out few min
utes later and which resulted so dis
astrously.
Andre EPSON, as the interpreter
says he spells his name, the man at
the hospital, is reported as having a
slight chance to live, although the bull
let in his brain which the surgeons
dare not probe for, hampers his re-
covery.
Ivanowski broke down and wept
when he was told that he had killed
a policeman who was the father Of
two children. So unnerved was he
over the act that II was hours before
he became calm.
He asked when the officers were go
Ing TO shoot him and II 1t was going
to be in day or two. Some such |
Idea of speedy punishment impelled |
him to write a long letter to his |
mother in Kiev.
1t has been decided beyond all ques-
tion that the dead bandit. Joe An
diold, was shot by Policeman Thomp-
son. There we're four bullet wounds
in his body. Ivanowsh said he heard
the shots and saw Andioki fall, shot
through the head.
Ivanowski said that his own wound
was from the pistol OF one of his
companions in the mixup with Lam
dregan and Carroll.
Medical Examiner Pinkham found
thirteen bullet wounds In CarrolPs
body, six Of them going completely
through his body. Only one bullet
was found.
Ivanowsh was arraigned In the
Lynn police court on charge of muir
der, and was held without bail
for the grand jury. EPSON will be
arraigned just as soon as he leaves
the hospital.
In the heart of the city and within
sight and bearing of thousands OF
people the three desperadoes held up
and killed Landregan and Carroll.
The two men were robbed of a bag
$4,000 intended for the
weekly payroll of the factory run by
and his partner.
II was one OF the most desperate
and cold blooded holdups In the his
tory of New England, for the two men
we're robbed and done TO death within |
twenty yards Of the door of the fac 5
tory and In view Of the employees.
while Central square, Lynn's busiest '
centre, is only short distance.
All three OF the bandits we're armed I
with the most powerful automatic
magazine pistols ever seen in Lynn I
IN. carried about 100 rounds of am
each. They used their pis- !
OILS freely In their fight.
The police displayed splendid cour-
lge and efficiency in the hunt for the
bandits, rounding up all three and re-
covering the stolen money within an '
lour and a half. and preventing the
ynehing of one yegg by the Infatuated a
Of Lynn. who fought and
,egged the police 70 be allowed TO get v
L the fellow.
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