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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1917

OZARK — Pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter, Bert Dean, young farmer charged with killing William Hutcheson, a section foreman, in a shotgun duel at White Oak station, August 16 last, was sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary today. The shooting was the result of a charge by Hutcheson that Dean has alienated the affections of Mrs. Hutcheson. It is said that the men had several quarrels over the matter. Hutcheson is reported to have told Dean to stay away from his house.

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1967

A former part-time clerk at the Little Rock Postoffice pleaded guilty to mail theft charges Tuesday in federal District Court and said that he had taken letters containing about $500 in cash from the postoffice over a period of several months. Garland Frederick Gill, 20, of 2100 Pulaski Street, who was working part-time while attending Philander Smith College, was fined $500 and placed on two years probation by Judge J. Smith Henley.

25 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1992

Flo Hyman, a 31-year-old American volleyball star, came off the court when she was playing in Japan, sat down on a bench, collapsed and died. Five years later, all volleyball and basketball players are routinely screened for the disorder that killed Hyman in her prime — Marfan syndrome, the “tall people’s disease.” Marfan is more common than cystic fibrosis or hemophilia, but is usually only diagnosed at autopsy. Marfan syndrome is an inherited disorder of the body’s connective tissue that can result in excessive height, deformities of the spine and chest, loose and double joints, flat feet and, most serious of all, a gradual weakening of the aorta.

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 2007

As the U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Thursday for four missing crew members of a charter boat found abandoned Sunday in the Florida Straits, the Arkansas mother of one surviving passenger said she was “devastated” and prays for the safety of the crew. Betty Archer, speaking by phone from Mountain Home, said Thursday she hasn’t seen or heard from her son, Kirby Archer, 35, of Strawberry, since Jan. 26, when police say they believe he disappeared after stealing $92,600 from a Batesville Wal-Mart.