Evening star., 1935-01-18
MA|S AND LECENzA.
With GIRL FRIEND.
CAUGHT IN GOTHAM.
Former Trapped in Apart
ment Hideout and Latter
Arrested in Hospital.
MARIE M'KEEVER GIVES
TIP.0FF, TO ROUNDUP
ehadowed, She Leads Officers to
Injured Pal in Capture of Last
Tri-State Gangsters.

The bloody history of the Tri-State
gang entered its final chapter today
with the capture in New York of Rob-
ert MaiS, 20, and Walter Legenza, alias
William Davis, Al, who murdered a
policeman and wounded two deputy
wardens in a sensational break from
Richmond city Jail September 90 while
awaiting execution.
The doomed pair, regarded by police
as two Of the most desperate machine
gunners and robbers in the East, were
subdued without bloodshed by Depart
ment OF Justice agents and Phila-
delphia and New York detectives fol-
lowing an intensive man hunt in
which Washington homicide squad
members had played an important
role.
Execution Dates Set.
The two men were to be turned over
to Virginia authorities for execution
of death sentences imposed for the
murder of E. M. Huband, guard, dur
ing the hold-up of Federal Reserve
Bank truck at Richmond last March.
Trial Judge John M. Irsram had set
last October 81 as LigenZas death
date and MaiS was to have been exc
cuted a few weeks later.
This concludes, for the second time,
the round up of the gangs machine
gunners, robbers, cracksmen and auto
mobile thieves, who shot, plundered
and blundered through the District,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and
North Carolina for more than a year.
1t was woman, Washington police
said, vino in the end tripped up Mais
and Legenza, the last living members
OF the old gang at large. She was
MaiS' sweetheart, 35-year-old Marie
McKeever, who was ordered out of
Richmond about the time revolvers
were smuggled to the killers in jail.
Woman Also Arrested.
The woman was arrested last night
after she had been trailed to New
York Hospital on a visit to Legenza
The latter was under treatment for
two broken legs received in a gun
battle with Philadelphia, police at
Wayne Station December 49, Neither
Legenza nor the woman offered re-
sistance.
According to the Associated Press,
Mais was surprised at $3.50 O'Clock this
morning in an apartment at No. 8
Manhattan avenue and Subdued be-
fore he could reach for the .38-caliber
automatic which lay in bed Beside
him.
Police say Mais and Legenza since
their escape had organized another
mob of hoodlums suspected in num-
Der of payroll robberies in Philadel-
phia. Two alleged running mates of
the doomed pair, Martin Farrell, %.
and Edwin Galee, %, were seized in a
midtown New York Hotel yesterday
morning, according to Frank Fay,
chief of the Justice Departments op-
eratives in New York.
Fay said the arrest of the five
''eradicates, as far as We know" the
new gang. The justice official added
that after Legenza and Mais escaped
they robbed Government armories in
Baltimore and Norristown, Pa, to OBJ
tain weapons.
Suspected in kidnapping.
They also were suspected of the kid
napng last November of William
Weiss in Philadelphia. Ransom of
$4,000 was paid for his return, but
Weiss is still missing.
Fay said the arrest of the despera-
does was accompanied by the usual
scufRing, but it was not necessary to
fire a shot"
Mais and Legenza had frequently
eluded police of several cities sincs
their escape. Twice last month Mais
escaped officers in a series of raids
made on various Philadelphia houses.
In one house police found an arsenal
of rifles, sawed-off Shotguns and ma
chine guns said to have been stolen
from Norristown.
The new gang was blamed for the
$4,000 pay roll hold-up of an office of
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.
last october, and the $4,000 robbery
of the Office of the Philadelphia Elec-
trio Co. last month, according to the
Associated Press.
In the Philadelphia gun fight with
the mobsters Mais and Legenza made
clean getaways, although Legenza
broke both legs leaping down an en-
bankment. Police, however, captured
two members Of the gang, who later
received long prison sentences.
j. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Bureau
OF Investigation, announced this morn
ing that MaiS and Legenza would be
arraigned in New York on Federal
charges Of robbing the National Guard
Armory at Hyattsville and TRANSPORT
ing stolen property across State lines.
Hoover said this move was made to
insure that the prisoners will be re-
turned to Richmond under Federal
guard.
The old tri-State gang which Le-
genza, better known to Washington