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100 YEARS AGO April 2, 1918
BATESVILLE — Bailey Kirby, who shot and killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Hill, and her crippled son, Lee Ward, near Williamson switch November 5 last, was found guilty of first degree murder in Circuit Court at Melbourne and sentenced to life imprisonment. The double murder was one of the most brutal ever committed in this section. According to testimony, Kirby had accused Mrs. Hill of alienating his wife’s affection. He and his wife had been estranged for some time. On the night of the murder Kirby went to the home of Mrs. Hill, where Mrs. Kirby was living, and shot Mrs. Hill three times and her son twice.
50 YEARS AGO April 2, 1968
State Education Commissioner A. W. (Arch) Ford said Monday that he, the Education Department, and most school systems in Arkansas were committed not only to compliance with desegregation laws and rulings but also to the moral principles behind them.
25 YEARS AGO April 2, 1993
Security concerns prompted Little Rock Municipal Court officials to dispense with their usual procedures Thursday in the arraignment of two men charged with capital murder in two separate homicides. Terrick Terrell Nooner, 22, of 5712 Old Pine Road in Little Rock and Robert Lewis Rockett, 19, of Sweet Home remained in the Little Rock Jail on Thursday morning after rumors surfaced that the suspects’ lives had been threatened, Municipal Judge Lee Munson said. “It was just communicated to me that friends, family or someone had said that they (Nooner and Rockett) weren’t going to make it to trial, Munson said. “It’s 100 yards from here to the jail.”
10 YEARS AGO April 2, 2008
Six weeks after arresting Charles Jones on a rape charge involving an 8-yearold relative, North Little Rock police arrested Jones on four additional counts of rape involving relatives and a neighbor. Jones, 39, of 400 N. Palm St., Apt. 93, in North Little Rock pleaded innocent Tuesday in North Little Rock District Court to the four new charges. He was being held in lieu of $1 million bond Tuesday night in the Pulaski County jail. Detectives arrested Jones on Feb. 21 on a warrant charging him with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old relative in December 2006, said North Little Rock police spokesman Sgt. Terry Kuykendall.