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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 11, 1917
MOUNTAIN VIEW — Ben M. Lacewell, a timber man, was shot and killed by Jim Branscum, a farmer and deputy sheriff, at Arlburg, in the western part of Stone county, late yesterday afternoon. Branscum surrendered to the sheriff and was placed in jail, pending his preliminary hearing. Branscum says he shot Lacewell in self-defense. He says the trouble started over an old grudge.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 11, 1967
Two men were found guilty Tuesday in federal District Court of transporting a stolen automobile and one stolen pistol each from North Little Rock to Ellicott City, Md., and each was sentenced to 10 years in prison by Judge Gordon E. Young. Leo Junior Clay, 27, of Hurt, Va., and his brother, James Clay, 20, of Ellicott City received maximum sentences of five years on each offense to run consecutively. The stolen automobile belonged to James Ricks, 27, of 908 E St., Dixie Addition, North Little Rock, who was found dead August 27 near Newport with a bullet in his head.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 11, 1992
BRADLEY — In life, Clyde Spence contributed kindness and friendship to this Lafayette County community. In death, the community returned the favor. “The night of the murder, every farmer in the community except two went to his house,” said Debra Slack, owner of the Slack Pack Exxon station in Bradley. “This will be one of the biggest funerals we ever had here.” In interviews conducted Friday and Saturday, residents of Bradley and Lafayette County unfailingly described Spence as a stalwart member of the community. He was buried Saturday.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 11, 2007
A Pine Bluff drug dealer, concerned about his mounting debt to a Mexican drug cartel and his partner’s alliance with the cartel, hired Vertis Clay to kill the partner in July 2003, a prosecutor said Wednesday in opening statements of Clay’s federal murder trial. Clay of North Little Rock is on trial on three charges: conspiracy to distribute marijuana, using a firearm in the course of drug-trafficking, and capital murder, which carries a possible death sentence. The murder charge stems from the July 20, 2003, slaying of 20-year-old Darryl Johnson of Pine Bluff.