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Show GANG LEADERS DIEJNCHAIR Leaders of Notorious Tri-state Tri-state Gang Expatiate Crime Careers. RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 2 (U.I?) A brief fortnight after capture in New York, Robert Mais, 29, and Walter Lagenza, 41, ruthless ruth-less leaders of the notorious tri-Etate tri-Etate bandit gang, went to the electric chair today. Mais, a quacking, dark-haired yout,h went to the death room first. He was pronounced dead at 7:50 a. m., 3 minutes after the electrodes were fastened about his limbs. Legenza.joth legs broken in a gun battle with Philadelphia police pol-ice followed his younger companion com-panion to, the chair. Physicians cut the plaster casts from his still unmended legs to apply the death-dealing electrodes. Legenza was pronounced dead at 8:06 a. m. approximately five minutes after he was strapped in the chair with the electrodes fastened about his broken legs. He was carried to the death room in a wheel chair, first con-- con-- vict in Virginia history to be so treated. Mais died protesting his innocence in-nocence of the slaying of a federal reserve truck driver here last March. It was this crime of the many charged to the desperate gang which brought the sentence of death to the pair. "I never killed a man, Mais told prison officials during the sleepless sleep-less night which proceeded his execution. ex-ecution. "I was in on the planning of the reserve truck, robbery with the rest of the gang but I wasn't down here when they pulled the job." |