Other days
100 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 1917
Marching with the rhythmic swing and precision of veterans, an army of 5,000 men paraded the streets of Little Rock yesterday and passed in review before a major general of the United States Army. Never since Sept. 10, 1863, have the streets of the city echoed to the tread of so many soldiers or the rumble of so many guns. Led by Major General S. D. Sturgis, the long brown line deployed on Capitol avenue and marched briskly to the state capitol grounds, where speeches were made by Governor Brough and others.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 1967
A skeleton found Sunday afternoon on a bluff near the Veterans Administration Hospital in North Little Rock has been identified by Hospital officials as that of Richard Franklin Hartman, of Sapulpa, Okla., who disappeared from the hospital June 14. James Witt, assistant chief of the medical Administration Division, said Tuesday that the skeleton was identified from a privilege card found in a trousers pocket and by dental X- rays.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 1992
A Little Rock police officer accused of misconduct while making an off- duty arrest last spring has quit rather than be fired. The officer, Doug Elms, was accused by a Pine Bluff man, Herbert Cunning, of roughing him up and falsely arresting him in the lobby of Masters Economy Inn, 707 Interstate 30, early May 23. Elms was providing security at the hotel and Cunning was a guest there. Cunning, 40, was acquitted last month of misdemeanor public intoxication and disorderly conduct, charges arising from the arrest.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 2007
A 34- year- old Little Rock man who claimed a former lover had seduced him to get incriminating DNA evidence was acquitted of rape Wednesday. Kenneth Lloyd Caldwell said his accuser wanted revenge because he had tried to blackmail her about their relationship. “She set me up to be charged with rape,” Caldwell told jurors. “I was going to inform her husband … I was sleeping with her.” The seven women and five men deliberated less than an hour in the courtroom of Pulaski County Circuit Judge Marion Humphrey and cleared Caldwell of wrongdoing in the Oct. 11, 2000, sexual encounter with the woman, who is now 33. She denied knowing Caldwell and has never identified him as her attacker.