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100 YEARS AGO June 23, 1917
VAN BUREN — The jury hearing the case of Alex Lasater, charged with the murder of Clyde Chastain, in Circuit Court here, returned a verdict of involuntary manslaughter this morning, after being out two hours. The jury left the punishment to the court, who will pass sentence at 8 o’clock Saturday. The jury that tried this case at the November, 1916, term failed to agree, and two men were heavily fined for tampering with the first jury.
50 YEARS AGO June 23, 1967
PINE BLUFF — Neddie L. Cooper, 37, of Pine Bluff, who was charged with first-degree murder last week in the fatal shooting of an Illinois Tool Works employee, was charged Thursday with two counts of assault with intent to kill. Prosecuting Attorney Joe Holmes filed the charges in connection with the wounding of Joseph B. Branscomb, 21, of Pine Bluff, and Ronald Haynes, 29, of Jacksonville. The shooting, in which Earnestine Robinson, 24, of Pine Bluff was killed, took place in the plant cafeteria June 15. Branscomb was seated at the table with the victim and Haynes was standing in a cafeteria line.
25 YEARS AGO June 23, 1992
A mother and daughter died early Sunday in a Pulaski County house fire, apparently as the mother tried to rescue the child. Killed were Anna Perry, 6, and Dorothy Pickens Perry, 35. The fire, which began around 4 a.m., heavily damaged the Perry’s single-story, three-bedroom frame house at 1300 Valentine Road. Damage is estimated at $20,000 to $25,000, Capt. Bobby Laws, a fire inspector with the Jacksonville Police Department said. Laws said the fire started in the kitchen near a refrigerator or freezer. He said the appliance overloaded an extension cord and shorted out.
10 YEARS AGO June 23, 2007
The names of six Arkansas lawyers have been forwarded to the White House as potential replacements for the late U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr., U.S. Rep. John Boozman’s office announced Friday. The list includes two black men, one black woman, two white men and one white woman. Four of them live in Little Rock, while the others are from Helena-West Helena and Jonesboro in eastern Arkansas. Howard died April 21, at age 82, during his 27th year on the bench in the Eastern District of Arkansas.