*RARE* 1934 TRI STATE GANG WALTER LEGENZA & ROBERT MAIS FBI WANTED POSTERS

Description: UP FOR AUCTION IS AN EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND ORIGINAL 1930's DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FBI WANTED POSTER OF THE INFAMOUS TRI STATE GANGSTERS WALTER LEGENZA & ROBERT MAIS. NATURALLY, THEY NEED NO INTRODUCTION.. ARGUABLY TWO OF THE MOST PROLIFIC, HIGH PROFILE PROHIBITION ERA OUTLAWS FROM THEIR DAY.. THEY WERE AS NOTORIOUS THEN, AS THEY ARE NOW!..THIS POSTER IS IN PHENOMENAL CONDITION AS YOU CAN SEE.. WHAT MAKES THIS PIECE ESPECIALLY RARE IS THAT IT WAS ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO NEIGHBORING TOWNS TO ALERT RESIDENTS OF THEIR DEATH. OR IN THIS CASE TO ALERT THEM OF THOSE STILL CURRENTLY WANTED, LIKE IN THE CASE OF TRI STATE GANG LEADERS WALTER LEGENZA AND ROBERT MAIS. LEGENZA IS ON ONE SIDE, AND MAIS ON THE OTHER. BOTH WERE ULTIMATELY FOUND AND EXECUTED IN 1935. THEIR BIO IS BELOW. WE PURCHASED THIS AND MANY OTHERS FROM THE ESTATE OF A RECENTLY RETIRED, NOW DECEASED SHERIFF IN KANSAS..THIS DOUBLE SIDED WANTED POSTER IS EXTREMELY RARE. YOU CAN LOOK LONG AND HARD AND YOU'LL NEVER FIND ONE ANYWHERE. THEY WERE ISSUED IN EXTREMELY LIMITED QUANTITY. IT IS IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION AS YOU CAN SEE.. CAREFULLY PRESERVED FOR OVER 85 YEARS.. DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO OWN A PIECE OF HISTORY.. WE JUST LISTED THE FOLLOWING EXCEPTIONALLY RARE WANTED POSTERS FROM OUR RECENT ACQUISITION, PLEASE SEE OUR STORE FOR THE FOLLOWING: Fred BurkeJohn HamiltonCharles MakleyBruno Richard HauptmannJohn DillingerCharles E Murphy/Everett Frank LindsayHarry CopelandPretty Boy FloydWilliam Harris Fleagle (Jake)Harry PierpointClyde Barrow ETC.. PLEASE SEE OUR STORE Gangster. Walther Legenza, together with his partner, Robert Mais, were the leaders of what would become known as the "Tri-State Gang," because they operated between Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Legenza and Mais and their men led raids in southern Virginia on cigarette trucks, hijacking several in 1933. On March 8, 1934, Legenza and Mais and three other men stopped an unarmored delivery truck from Richmond's Federal Reserve Bank on an overpass near Broad Street Station, killing the driver and stealing sacks of worthless cancelled checks. Legenza was captured by police in Maryland with Mais, and then returned to Richmond and tried for the murder of the truck driver, E. M. Huband. Legenza and his partner were sentenced to the Virginia's electric chair. Because of lax security in the Richmond jail, the pair was able to have a canned chicken sent to them, which contained two pistols. Legenza and Mais were able to shoot their way out of the jail on September 29, 1934, killing one Richmond policeman, William Toot, and wounding two other officials before they disappeared. The pair made their way to Philadelphia and embarked on a crime spree in the winter of 1934, culminating in the kidnapping of William "Big Nose" Weiss, a noted criminal figure, on October 28, 1934. Legenza executed Weiss with a bullet to the head almost as soon as the victim was bundled into a car, and Weiss' weighted body was not found in a nearby creek until months later. Legenza broke bones in both legs in the course of a shootout with Philadelphia police and was taken to New York by Mais and Mais' girlfriend, Marie McKeever. The gangster was powerless to resist being arrested in a New York hospital where he was registered under a false name, and the police also picked up Mais and McKeever. The Richmond authorities were not informed of their arrival when Legenza, shackled to a gurney, and Mais were returned to Richmond on a night train from New York on January 22, 1935, closely guarded by Federal agents. The same judge who sentenced them to death months before sternly told them they would die in the electric chair in ten days. Legenza and Mais were electrocuted on February 2, 1935. Credit goes to "Find A Grave" IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS WHATSOEVER, PLEASE ASK.. W

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