Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-29
MURDERS NOT
PREMED|TATED
Claim Of Yeggs Who Killed
Manufacturer and Policeman
DESPERATE TRAGEDY IN LYNN

Police Recover $4,000 Which Was
Stolen, XIII 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 27.-Both of the
surviving members of the bandit band
that murdered Thomas A. Landregan,
a shoe manufacturer, and Patrolman
James II. 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
Ivanowski, 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 a 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 wep
when he was told that he had killed
a policeman who was the father OF
over the act that It was hours before
he became calm.
He asked when the officers were 60
ing to shoot him and if it was going
to be in a 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
dioki, was shot by Policeman Thomp-
son. There were four bullet wounds
in his body. Ivanowski said he heard
the shots and saw Andiok 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 CAROLS
body, six of them going completely
through his body. Only one bullet
was found.
IvanowsH will be arraigned in the
Lynn police court on a charge of muir
der, and will be 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 hearing of thousands oil
people the three desperadoes held VI
and killed Landregan and Carroll
The two men were robbed of a bag
containing $4,000 intended fer the
weekly payroll of the factory run by
Landregan and his partner.
It was one of the most desperate
and -blooded holdups in the his.
tory of New England for the two tner
were robbed and done to death within
twenty yards of the door of the fac.
tory and in view of the employees
while Central square, Lynn's bushes
centre, is only short distance.
All three of the bandits were armed
with the most powerful automati,
magazine pistols ever seen In Lynn
and carried about 100 rounds of am
munition each. They used their pis
tolls freely in their flight.
The police displayed splendid cour
age and efficiency in the hunt for tn
bandits, rounding up all three and re
covering the stolen money within al
hour and half, and preventing tn
lynching of one yegg by the infuriate
populace of Lynn, who fought an
begged the police to be allowed to ge
at the fellow.
Fined For Burning Building
Boston, June 26.-Morris Rudnick