The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-06-30
THUG Kill TWO
ON MAIN STREET
AND GRAB $1,000
Shoe Man Dies Instantly, Of
deer Few Minutes Later
Hundreds Witness Trag-
edy and Give Pursuit.

Lynn, Mass, June pa double
murder and the robbery of moro than
5000 by three young Russian Poles
on tho principal business thorough.
fare Of Lynn today had sts sequel
within less than z hours In the death
Of ono Of the bandits, The serious
wounding of another and the arrest #
Of the third. The victims Of the
murder wore Thomas A. landregan,
q shoe manufacturer of this city,
and Policeman James Carroll.
The name Of the dead robber is Abba.
Arson, OF New York. according to his
statement to the police. The name Of
known. but the third man said he wes
"BIl Koyansky," Of Boston. Inspector.
Morrissey, Of the Boston department
later said Koyansky was one OF the
Jamaica plains outlaws who held that
suburb OF Boston in terror two years
age
MI. Landregan. accompanied by the,
policeman, was returning from the
Lynn National bank to the factory Of,
Weloh & Landregan, OF which he was
one OF h nroprietors and was carrying
in a bag $4,000, the weekly payroll OF
the factory.
Robbers Spring Out.
AS the pair neared the factory on
Willow street, three robbers ran up be-
Elllu IueHl ana opened Hro N Close
range. One OF the trio seized the bag
Of money and at almost the same in,
slant Mr.. Landregan fell dead with q
bullet through the neck.
Carroll also dropped MORALLY wound
ed and the robbers ran up the street
heading for High Rock. a city park.
After reaching this hill the men sepa-
rated. In the meantime a crowd esti-
mated al 10000 persons started In pur-
suit.
Many were in automobiles and prac-,
tically all were armed. In a short
time a Gordon was thrown about the
High Rock district and 1t was in trying
to escape through these lines that all
three of the bandits came to grief.
Arson died in an ambulance as the
result of a bullet wound in the head,
He had been repeatedly shot at by
the police, but the indications when his
body was dragged from a clump of
bushes on Granite street, were that he
had sent a bullet from his own re-
volver through his brain.
A second man, whose name is known,
was wounded by Policeman Grady. He
probably will Tecove
The man called Bill Kovansky" sur,
rendered to the police a short distance
from where the second wa. shot Ko-
vansky has been identified as the man
who killed Landregan. When Rowan
SAJ "eo ID w ~ pSiiSO 5lhNlCAI,
several hundred shoe factory employees
attacked him. knocked him down and
beat and kicked him. Several of the po-
l1cemen We're roughly handled in en-
deayoring to protect Kovansky, who
was finally dragged into the. station.
A search of the robbers clothing re-
suited in the recovery Of more than
1850.
Throw Away Silver.
AS the highWaymen fled they caught
sight Of a horse held by a man in front
of the residence of Miss Bessie Baker.
Miss Baker was just coming out of the
house for a morning ride. One of the
desperadoes seized the bride, but as
Miss Baker screamed he dropped it
and ran with the others. All three
then rushed through Hood terrace and.
gained the heights of High Rock.
A great crowd was in pursuit by this
time. When the officers and citizens
reached High Rock the three men were
nowhere in sight, but silver money was
found scattered about. The men evil
IDENTIFY had dropped all the silver from
the bag in order to tighten their load,
but had kept the bank notes.
The officers. many of whom had
seized automobiles, at once surrounded
High Rock.
Mr.. Landregan was about AZ years
Of age and leaves a family.