Some train robbers never seem to get their outlaw act together. A couple of Cochise County cowboys named Joe George and Grant Wheeler tried to rob a Southern Pacific train twice and failed miserably both times. On January 30th, 1895, they stopped the SP near Willcox and climbed into the express car with a few sticks of dynamite to blow the safe. Figuring the real loot was in the safe they ignored several sacks filled with Mexican silver pesos. Twice they tried unsuccessfully to blow the safe doo
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