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100 YEARS AGO July 5, 1917
HOT SPRINGS — After hearing the testimony of Jewel Canada, the boy from Sulphur township, who was in the boat with Ely Magby and Wallace Harrison, when the latter was drowned in the Ouachita river Sunday, the coroner’s jury held Magby for Grand Jury investigation, without bail, for first degree murder. Young Canada said that Magby attacked Harrison in the boat and kicked him into the river. In spite of a severe grilling by Magby’s lawyer, Canada stuck to his story.
50 YEARS AGO July 5, 1967
Six persons had been killed on Arkansas highways toward the end of the four-day July 4 holiday period Tuesday. The State Police said 22 persons died last year over a three-day holiday period. Lester Hershel Deck Jr., 29, of McRae (White County) was killed late Monday when his pickup truck struck a bridge abutment on Interstate 30 west of Little Rock. State Police said the truck traveled about 330 feet after hitting the abutment and came to rest in the median strip. Deck was an employee of the Benton Unit of the State Hospital.
25 YEARS AGO July 5, 1992
One by one, month after month, pedigreed dogs are disappearing from homes along and near Garrison Road in western Pulaski County. The animals’ owners — who have posted notices at stores, run newspaper advertisements, and even sent out hundreds of fliers and color photographs — wonder if thieves are selling the canines for breeding or research, or as pets. Linda Jones, whose 6-month-old Rottweiler vanished Tuesday from behind a fence and closed gate on Bandy Road, on Friday expressed a common refrain of her neighbors: “It’s not the value of the dog. We love him.”
10 YEARS AGO July 5, 2007
A prosecutor is seeking a warrant to have a mentally ill St. Francis County man who killed his father with an ax 16 years ago returned to the Arkansas State Hospital. The Arkansas Supreme Court, overturning a decision by Pulaski County Circuit Judge Alice Gray, ruled last week that 54-year-old Carey Lewis Owens should not have been released in October. “That’s what I feel like we need to do is get him back into treatment and back into the system,” said Margie Lickert, the prosecutor who oversees involuntary mental commitments in the 6th Judicial Circuit of Pulaski and Perry counties.