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100 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1918
Will Siler of Baxter county, sentenced to 21 years imprisonment in state penitentiary May 9, 1914, for killing his sister-in-law, Mrs. McFadden-Siler, the wife of his brother, Gill, yesterday was pardoned by Governor Hays. Mrs. Siler was killed January 30, 1914. According to the testimony at the trial, she believed that her husband and his father and brothers were trying to defraud her. She had given her husband her own money to help pay a mortgage on his father’s homestead.
50 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1968
About 1,400 welfare checks thought to have been mailed January 1, primarily to Mississippi County welfare clients, were found waiting for the postman Tuesday. The Welfare Department said that the box of checks had been misplaced on its loading dock. Welfare recipients in both Mississippi and Miller Counties had reported their checks overdue. A Welfare Department spokesman said that the box of checks was overlooked as about 88,000 welfare checks were readied for transfer to the Post office the first of the month.
25 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1993
Some children in the United States are being exposed to an addicting drug as early as age five, according to a new study conducted in Arkansas. The drug is nicotine, and the study by a group of researchers at Arkansas Children’s Hospital found that one in four youngsters who chew tobacco or use snuff start before age 9. Kindergarten-age youngsters, especially white boys in rural areas, are getting the same dose of nicotine in a bite of chewing tobacco as their older counterparts are getting in one cigarette, according to the study.
10 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 2008
A Sherwood man on whose property a body was found on the morning after he had reportedly fired shots into the air to scare off intruders has been charged with manslaughter. On Wednesday, Sherwood police charged Larry Staley in the October shooting death of Bryant Cross, 18, of McAlmont on Staley’s 3.5 acres off Arkansas 107. The department also charged Staley with being a felon in possession of a firearm. He is being held in the Sherwood city jail pending an arraignment hearing today. The charges come after a series of burglaries on Staley’s property and a few more attempted burglaries, during which Staley admitted shooting toward trespassers at least twice.