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During a gun fight at Twenty-second and Cumberland streets about 8:30 last night between detectives and a negro bootlegger, a bullet from the negro’s gun passed through the shoulder of Detective Steed’s coat. The negro escaped. Detectives Slayers, Steed, Moore, and Marrineau were after a negro suspected of bootlegging and after trailing him for some distance saw him sell two pints of whiskey to two soldiers at Twenty-first and Cumberland streets. Slayers and Steed advanced upon the negro, who ran.
100 YEARS AGO March 6, 1918
50 YEARS AGO March 6, 1968
Judge Gordon E. Young ruled Tuesday in federal District Court that a Negro busboy who was convicted of a misdemeanor charge in Little Rock Municipal Court nearly three years ago was entitled to a new trial because he had been tried without a lawyer. The judge said that Robert Winters, 27, was entitled to the new trial because the 30day jail sentence and $254 fine Winters received on an immorality charge constituted a “serious offense” under Arkansas’s 1875 “dollar a day” statute.
25 YEARS AGO March 6, 1993
EL DORADO — The capital murder trial of Leon Mask ended Friday morning when Mask pleaded guilty a day after he spontaneously confessed his guilt in court. Union County Circuit Judge Bobby Shepherd sentenced Mask, 23, to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Mask was accused of murdering Kenneth Paul Brown, 47, either late Sept. 18 or Sept. 19, 1991, in the master bedroom of Brown’s home. Brown was president of Professional Food Systems Inc., a division of ConAgra Poultry Co.
10 YEARS AGO March 6, 2008
North Little Rock’s maritime museum is studying the addition of a 390-footlong destroyer to its site on the Arkansas River at no initial cost, the museum’s director said Wednesday. Ship preservationists have been looking for a new home for the USS Orleck since the sale last summer of the Levingston Island property in Orange, Texas, where it had been since December 2006. The buyers gave the Southeast Texas War Memorial and Heritage Foundation that owns the Orleck until this month to move it. “Basically I’m just doing our cost analysis if it gets here and what it’s going to cost us [to maintain],” said Greg Zonner, director of North Little Rock’s Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum, 120 Riverfront Drive.