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100 YEARS AGO March 19, 1919

CLARKSVILLE, March 17 – Sheriff Boone D. Bartlett and Deputies Than Pyron and Eli Clinton made a raid on the home of Milton Patrick, near Coffee Station, above Hartman, and as a result four men are lodged in the county jail charged with the illegal sale of liquor. They are Milton Patrick, John Henry Harris, Walter Evans, and a man named Estep… Officers say the three men, Harris, Evans, and Estep, were stopping at the home of Patrick, where the liquor was kept in barrels and drawn off in one-half fruit jars to be sold. They say that Walter acted as salesman and was wearing a mask made of a blue bandana handkerchief when the arrest was made.

50 YEARS AGO March 19, 1969

LUXORA –Two men were wounded Monday in a shooting incident in and near a liquor store at this Mississippi County town. Officers identified the wounded men as M. C. Williams, 28, and Willie Tender, 83. The incident apparently began when Williams went into the liquor store and demanded whiskey, officers said. The operator of the store fled to the back of the building. Tender then entered the store and was shot by Williams, officers said. The officers said they went to investigate and chased Williams in to an alley… They said Williams fired on the officers, who shot back, hitting Williams with one pistol shot and one shotgun blast.

25 YEARS AGO March 19, 1994

PINE BLUFF – “Daddy Bruce” Randolph fed thousands of hungry people for more than 60 years in both his native Arkansas and his adopted state, Colorado. What possessed Daddy Bruce to celebrate his birthday and religious holidays by giving free barbecue to transients, the poor or politicians? “God gives us all something to do in life,” Randolph said. “The gift he gave me to do is helping people.”… He left his home in Jefferson County’s Pastoria for an opportunity to sell his barbecue sandwiches in Texas, but he never forgot his roots in Southeast Arkansas. “Anyone up here in Denver knew how important Pine Bluff and Arkansas was to Daddy Bruce,” his pastor, the Rev. Gil Ford, said. “He had a dual connection, and he often visited the state.” … He began selling barbecue sandwiches in the 1920s for a dime. He left Arkansas for Texas, opened a restaurant and began offering free meals on Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving.

10 YEARS AGO March 19, 2009

CONWAY — A SWAT team burst into a Conway apartment within a block of the University of Central Arkansas before dawn Wednesday and arrested a convicted felon who authorities say had barricaded himself inside after shooting a police officer hours earlier. Harley Inthisone, 27, of Danville was jailed on two counts of attempted capital murder. Inthisone fired several shots, and one bullet struck officer Matthew Kimery, 24, in the shoulder, Conway police Lt. Susan Wilson said… Inthisone “was being patted down” when he “bolted” into the apartment and opened fire, hitting Kimery, Wilson said. No one else was injured, and the person who had been in the apartment left before Inthisone barricaded himself alone inside… At one point during the standoff, officers used an explosive to break the apartment’s windows and toss tear-gas canisters inside. Neither the tear gas nor negotiations persuaded Inthisone to surrender, prompting the Faulkner County Metro Special Weapons and Tactics team to break into the apartment about 3:30 a.m., Wilson said.