On the Sunday morning before the killing…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

On the Sunday morning before the killing on Wednesday, a fight occurred between Man- ley and Joe Crizer, in the Lackey house, at Lone Mountain. Redding, seeing one of the Robin- son’s going to the house with a gun during the fight, got his own gun and went to the house, and seeing Crizer down and Manley in the act of braining him with the butt of a Winchester, ran the barrel of his own gun between Manley and Crizer, thus warding off the blow. Having quelled the fight Redding took Crizer away. The next day Manley procured a warrant at Central for Redding’s arrest, which was served on Tuesday, the trial at Central being set for Wednesday morning.