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Redford Job, Sixteen-Year-Old Arrested for Robbery at Apache Tejo

Redford Job, the sixteen-year-old son of Alfred Job who lived on Whisky Creek east of Silver City, was arrested and brought to town by Marshal Cantley last Wednesday, charged with robbing the house of Martin Mullen at Apache Tejo [1][2]. Mullen and, during the absence of the family and guests, robbed the room of Miss Downs, taking a pistol, one dollar and fifty cents in change, and two receipts he supposed to be checks [1][2]. A Mexican employed on the ranch claimed to have been robbed of seventeen dollars and seventy-five cents and a gold watch chain [1][2]. The young man denied taking the money and chain from the Mexican but admitted taking the articles belonging to Miss Downs and returned the property [1][2]. He was likely to be bound over to await the action of the grand jury [1][2].

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  1. Redford Job, the sixteen year old son of… (1891)
    Redford Job, the sixteen year old son of Alfred Job who lives on Whisky creek east of Silver City, was arrested and brought to town by Marshal Cantley last Wednesday, charged with robbing the house of Martin
  2. Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-09-25 (1891)
    ges into the Mangas valley. The summit of this isolated mountain is an exact facsimile of a McClellan saddle seat, and as you approach, imagination forces the expecta- tion that the base of the monster monol
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