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concerned citizen

Resident of Prescott,[1] Arizona Territory in 1877.[2] (May 30, 1837 – June 20, 1880)[1]

A serious man who held the law and keeping the peace in high regard. He lived in the Prescott hotel where Rex Clark and Whitey Brandon shared a room the night.[1]

On the night of December 5, 1877,[1] Bret Maverick visited Rex Clark in his hotel room in Prescott to convince him to confess to being one of the men with Lefty Dolan during a bank robbery in Dry Springs in 1872. A confession would clear Jedd Ferris of wrongful robbery and murder charges and get him released from a life sentence Clark's partner, Whitey Brandon, intervened and a gunfight ensued. One of Brandon's bullets accidentally killed Clark, and Whitey fled the scene. Aroused by the gunfire, the concerned citizen and several other hotel boarders rushed to Clark's room to find Bret over the body. With Brandon gone, the concerned citizen assumed Bret had killed Clark and, backed by the boarders, made a citizen's arrest and marched Bret to the sheriff's office.[2]

See: The Long Hunt