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Show ter they had killed O'Neill, being 'prevented by the snapping of bis gun, instead of Colford. O'Neill's assistant, as at first reported. Rockwell says the money Is still In the big safe. He and Route Agent Carpenter, who arrived bere this morning morn-ing from Sacramento, have been working work-ing all day to get the valuable from the partially wrecked safe. Rockwell says that the only money the bandits could possibly have secured consisted of $3 In his vest that hung in that car, and that amount may have been blown out as the vest was torn Into strips by the explosion. r Railroad Detectives Ahren and O'Neill are bere from Sacramento working on the case. The local officers are still out. BUNGLEDJOB QUITE BADLY Train Robbers Supposed to Have Spoiled Chance , of Getting Money. REDDING, CaL, April, 1 It Is now certain that the Copley train robbers did not get ' a cent for their work. The small . safe and Its contents were blown- to atoms and the large safe was not opened sufficiently suffi-ciently to allow of the highwaymen Setting at the plunder. That 19 according to the statement of Frank Rockwell, express guard, who was "dead-heading" through on the car that wasatfacked, and who has been In charge of the car and safe at Copley ever since. He was the man who at-tempted at-tempted to shoot the masked men-af- |