About 9 o’clock on Wednesday morning…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

iscreetly laid around Deming and was arrested there and brought back. He is a worthless sort of a fellow of a very dissipated and lecherous disposition squan- dering always more money than he honestly made. Shocking Shooting Robert Redding Kills George W. Manley at Central City About 9 o’clock on Wednesday morning reports of a most shocking killing arrived in this city from Central. The first reports were that Robert Redding, a well known and respected citizen of Lone mountain, without provocation, deliberately shot down George W. Manley, of the same place. Later reports were rather con- flicting, and at the present writing it is almost impossible to get the true status of the killing, as Robert Redding refuses to make a statement for publication. After meeting several persons who were in Central at the time of the killing, and not entering extensively into the previous troubles of the principals the particulars are gathered are about as follows: