Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-03-08
Andrei |psen and Wassi|i
IranskowSki Executed.
Put 10 Death in Electric Chair
At ChdTIest0wn Prison
For Murder Of 7. A. Landragan dan
Officer Carroll at Lynn.

Boston, March 7.--For the murder
last summer of Thomas \. Landra
gan, wealthy shoe manufacturer OF
Lynn, and Patrolman James IL. Car
roll. Of the Lynn police force. in a
bold daylight robbery, Andrei Ipsen.
aged ~, and Wassili Ivankowski. -,
We're clcctrocuted at the CharlcstoWn
state prison Tuesday
ipsen was the first to enter the death
chamber and at l2.l2.33 the current
Was applied. He was declared dead
AZ l. 1913. Invankowski followed
about i've minutes later. the current
being turned on al l2.234J and he
being pronounced dead at 12.3036.
The crime for which Wassili Ivan
koWski and .indrei Ipsen were exc
cuted at the state prison early today
was the murder at Lynn of Thomas \.
Landregan. prominent shoe manu-
faeturer of Lynn, and Patrolman
James II. Carroll of the Lynn police
force. The murder was prompted by
robbery and was one OF the boldest
and most sensational ever committed
in Massachusetts.
tIl Situi udN June MT. i4aIuTt-
gan. accompanied by Patrolman car
roll as a bodyguard. was returning
from a Lynn bank Ia his factory car
rying the factory's weekly pay roll
about $4,000 in a bag. On oxford
street, three men approached the man.
ufacturer and the policeman from be-
hind. Without a word Of warming
Landregan and Carroll We're shot dead
in their tracks and the murderers
seiZing the bag filled with none y,
started on a dash through the streets
towards High Rock, an eminencc over
locking the city.
The murder of Landrgan and Carroll
was witnessed by number of persons,
who immediately started in pursuit
The three bandits turned about from,
time to time. firing their wicked-look-
ing automatic magazine revolvers a,
their pursuers.
Within few moments after the
murder police and citizens. armed and
conveyed in dozens of automobiles
had made the escape Of the bandits
impossible. The three murderers
when they reached the summit Of Higf
Rock. lastly divided the paper eur
renoy that was in the bag. and ther
endeavGred to escape in the direction
of Baston. They were headed of b'
their pursuers. several shots We're ex
changed, and during the fight with th'
police, one Of the bandits was killed
This man has never been Identified
and is known to the police only by TIL
abbreviated name of Joe lpsen wa
seriously wounded and lvankoW SIX
| surrendered u the authorities.
The trial OF IvankoWski and lpsel
opened in November last, before chic
Justice Aiken of the Massachusett
| supprior court. in the Essex Count.
| Court house at Salem. The trial last
| ed only a few days. and after delib
| Grating less than two hours, the jury
| on November lS returned verdict O
| guilty OF murder in the first degree i
| tie case OF both men. Sentence O
| death was pronounced the same day
| Ipscn received the sentence in stoli'
| manner. but as IvankOWski was beln
| led back To jail he advanced som
| threatening words 10 the judge, de
| claring that the judge would be sorr
| later.
| The case Of IvankoWski and Ipsen
| almost unique in Massachusetts crlml
| nal jurisprudence, inasmuch as les
| than rine months elapsed from III
| time of the commission OF the crime I
| its oXpiation in the electric chair.