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100 YEARS AGO April 18, 1918

KNOBEL — A three-yearold baby girl was kidnapped in melodramatic style here early Monday night by her father, Joe McNeil. McNeil has been separated from his wife for some time, it is said. Mrs. McNeil is employed at Paragould, but left the baby at the home of her father, O. H. Livingston, in this city. McNeil arrived about dark Monday, coming from Corning on horseback. While members of the family were holding a conversation, he caught the child up in his arms, jumped astride his horse, which was standing unhitched, and started on a mad gallop for Corning. He bought a ticket there to St. Louis and has not been heard of since.

50 YEARS AGO April 18, 1968

TUCKER PRISON FARM — Herbert Russell Lewis, 32, and inmate at Tucker Prison Farm, walked off a work detail at Tucker Wednesday afternoon, then turned himself in at the Prison at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night, the State Police said. Prison officials said Lewis walked off a work detail in a rice field at the prison. State Police said Lewis turned himself in at the prison gate. Lewis was serving six years from Poinsett County for forgery and uttering, the prison said.

25 YEARS AGO April 18, 1993

Another chapter in Arkansas medical history was written last week when Dr. Randal Hundley, a cardiologist at Baptist Medical Center, inserted a permanent steel stent inside a heart artery in the first such surgery in the state. Hundley was flushed with excitement Tuesday after the one-hour procedure, in which he placed a tiny, steel-mesh cylinder in a narrowed artery to keep blood flowing in the heart of Allen Taylor, 69, of Russellville. “I am really happy the first use went so smoothly,” Hundley said.

10 YEARS AGO April 18, 2008

A Little Rock nightclub where a man was killed in December is a common nuisance, a Pulaski County Circuit judge ruled Thursday, warning the owner that he’ll be held in contempt for further criminal activity on or near the premises. The decision on Elevations by Judge Jay Moody capped a four-hour hearing in a Little Rock-generated lawsuit seeking to have the all-night club at 7200 Colonel Glenn Road declared a common nuisance and shut down for at least a year. Without comment, Moody rejected the closure request as well as the city’s alternative of forcing Elevations to close at 1 a.m., instead of the 5 a.m. closing that its liquor license allows.