Chas…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

Redding’s life, which threats were communi- cated to Redding. Chas. Fox, then a clerk in Neff & Stevens’ hardware store, in Silver City, testified that Manley purchased a pistol from him, and loaded it, and stated that he intended to kill Redding. Fox informed Redding of this. 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. On Tuesday morning Mrs. Chiles solicited Frank Thompson to intercede with Manley to drop the controversy. Thompson went to the Manley boarding house and admonished Manley to stop the trouble. Manley’s reply was “By God I will kill Bob Redding.” In the afternoon Thompson told Redding of this and warned him to look out.