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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 17, 1917
OZARK — William Hutcheson, a station foreman, is dead at his home and Bert Dean, a farmer, is in jail, charged with killing Hutcheson, following a shotgun duel between the two men at White Oak, a little station 10 miles west of this city. Hutcheson is said to have fired first, the shot taking effect in Dean’s arm. Dean returned the fire, his first shot hitting Hutcheson just above the heart. The shooting is said to be the result of a charge made by Hutcheson that Dean had alienated his wife’s affections.
50 YEARS AGO Aug. 17, 1967
HOT SPRINGS — A threecount indictment against Pasquale A. Massi, 63, of Cherry Hill, N.J., a reputed Cosa Nostra leader, was one of 26 returned to the United States Grand Jury here Wednesday. The three counts contained in Massi’s indictment are sodomy, conspiracy to commit sodomy and attempted bribery. He was accused of sodomy with a 16-year-old Negro in the Bath House Row area June 11 and also of offering a bribe to David J. Essex, a Hot Springs National Park ranger who allegedly witnessed the act.
25 YEARS AGO Aug. 17, 1992
When Karen Ferra’s 13-year-old daughter handed her a leaflet that was left in the door of their west Little Rock home Tuesday night, Ferra figured it was just another advertisement. But when she looked at it, she gasped. There, on the front, was a photograph of an aborted fetus’ arms, legs, and other body parts. Ferra flipped the leaflet over, only to find printed in large type, “A killer in your neighborhood?” Below that were the name, address, and photograph of a neighbor six houses down whom Ferra didn’t know. The bulletin said Curtis Stover of 28 Portland Drive was photographed “leaving his baby killing center.” In the photo taken several years ago, Stover, a physician who operates an abortion clinic called Little Rock Family Planning Services, made an obscene gesture toward the photographer.
10 YEARS AGO Aug. 17, 2007
Complaints about high prison phone charges and spotty service prompted state legislators to question Thursday whether the about $2.5 million in state commissions on inmate calls is an appropriate way to fund some correctional operations. Sen. Kim Hendren, R-Gravette, said he thought the rate of $4.80 for a 15-minute call was “pretty steep” and expressed concern that the state’s “profit” was at the expense of family and loved ones of prisoners. Prison officials say the commissions pay for security needs and provide indigent inmates with $100 in gate money when they are released.