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Show CONFESSED TOJWOMAN Two Brothers Lay Bare Their Robbery of a Train at Copley. - REDDING, Cal., May 10 Mrs. Thomas Whiteman of Dunsmulr made a statement to District Attorney At-torney Doxier in Redding yesterday regarding the connection of George Gates and E. Vernon Gates, brother whose parents live in Alameda, with the hold-up of the Oregon express at Copley on March 3L Mrs. Whlteman's story. In brief, is that- the Gates brothers, going under the names of Bruce Drake and Ed Lee, stayed at her Rivervlew lodging-house at Dunsmulr for several weeks preceding the crime; that they went south on the very train that was held up when the stop was made at Copley; that they returned to their rooms on the Saturday succeeding the hold-up, which was on Thursday; that they left on the following Monday and that she since has received letters from George Gates, whom she knew as Bruce Van Drake, in which he had confessed con-fessed the crime. The letters, of which she had received three, were turned over to the authorities. authori-ties. All letters were from George Gates. The last letter was dropped by him in Portland on the night of April 28, but was dated May 1. and In it Gates claimed to be in San Francisco, intending intend-ing to sail the next day for Australia. |