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100 YEARS AGO July 26, 1918

As stoically as any dumb animal, Eli Daffron, aged 35, Polk county murderer, sat in the death cell at the penitentiary last night awaiting his electrocution, which will occur early this morning. The crime for which he was sentenced to death was the murder of A. D. Boatner, Polk county food administrator, last April. Despite the cold-blooded murder of which he was convicted, Daffron was an object to arouse pity as he sat in his cell awaiting the end. Without money, without influence and apparently without a friend in the world, he has not even had the recourse of an appeal to the state Supreme Court. 50 YEARS AGO

July 26, 1968

The Pulaski County (rural) School Board voted Thursday night to carry out by September 1969 all of the recommendations that federal officials made two months ago to “remove the vestiges of a dual school system.” The decision was by unanimous vote of six members who attended. Clyde McPherson made the motion and Dr. Dale Cowling seconded it. Others voting for it were Dr. Robert E. Baker, Robert P. Lewis, John L. Ulmer and Mrs. Pat Mosher, Board president. Board member Winston G. Chandler and E. H. (Buz) Herrod were absent.

25 YEARS AGO July 26, 1993

PINE TREE — Juveniles who might otherwise become adult criminals get a second chance when sent to the East Arkansas Wilderness Institute instead of a juvenile training center, its director says. “They have never had an adequate support system at home,” Director Roscoe C. Wilson Jr. said. “Because of that, they have been socially handicapped, and then when they get in trouble, they get lost in the shuffle. Then they end up being criminals.” The East Arkansas Wilderness Institute, a juvenile training camp opened in April, is on part of 12,000 acres owned by the University of Arkansas system near Pine Tree in St. Francis County.

10 YEARS AGO

July 26, 2008 Arkansas State Police found the body of a Little Rock man early Thursday morning on Interstate 30 in downtown and later arrested his girlfriend on a first-degree murder charge. Kavontae Anderson, 31, was found after state police received calls at 3:45 a.m. about a body lying in the westbound lane of traffic of I-30 near the Cantrell Road exit, state police spokesman Bill Sadler said. Sadler said the case is being treated as homicide but didn’t disclose details.