Show KILLED OH U P TRAIN A man evidently out of his mind kills a passenger cheyenne wyo july 12 A 0 rogers of south st joseph alo shot and killed at 7 tonight on union pacific train no near ter wyo by N A coppland Co poLand formerly a bank teller ot omaha neb copeland attacked rogera without warning and three shots all of which took effect before he was overpowered by drakeman who bad a narrow escape from the bullets from the murderers pistol rogers never uttered a word after being shot his tody was left at raw una and copeland was turned over to the sheriff at that place copeland la to ibe insane he talks in a rambling about his troubles tut from vis story it Is gathered that be and rogers were in san francisco together where he says he was hypnotized by rogers he saya he killed ahja companion to save his own life and break the hypnotic spell from papers found on the dead man jt is believed he was traveling tor swift co of chicago copeland Is believed belie vod to be the man that married a denver belle two years ago and a month later deserted bis bride in aan francisco omaha july 13 ned hartley copeland who last night killed A P rogers on a union pacific train near raw lans wyo was a trusted in the nebraska national bank in this city for ten years prior to august he left the olty at that time ostensibly tor a summer vacation and a visit to the eastern states and has not since been heard from at tho bank CopeL md was designated as the M teller he having charge of the deposits of the burlington missouri river railroad for a monitia after his departure the burlington account at the bank showed a shortage of la 10 halt of this amount was made good by copelande Cop elands brother in law and th remainder toy his bondsmen the bond company that acted as bis surety has been looking for copeland ever the shortage was discovered but has been unable to locate him henry W yaten president ot the national bank said that Oo reland bad been leading a fast life tor some timo prior to his departure from the city and be thinks this with his other troubles caused him to partially lose his mind copeland was recently heard from on the coast from a fraternal society with which he was connected and was being traced iby a detective agency it Is suspected rogers recognized him and that this may have led to the shooting st joseph mo july 13 A P rogers who was killed by N H copeland on a union pacific train near autta wyo last night was employed by swift co in transporting poultry from at joseph to san francisco he left here two weeks ago in charge of a car of poultry and was on his return when killed he has no family copeland is unknown here |