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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 30, 1921

HOT SPRINGS — Raymond Cole, aged 23, self-confessed murderer of Mrs. Annie McKennon, who also implicated the Rev. Harding Hughes, a superannuated Methodist minister, in the killing, and who, in his confession, had declared that he did not ride the dead woman’s pony out of the community in which the killing took place May 7, this afternoon corrected his confession and admitted that he rode the pony away. He was confronted by Sheriff Crump … who had just returned from Yell county, where he found that Cole had sold the pony for a note for $25, and had later sold the note. Cole explained that he told the note he had received in payment for the pony to Justice Jones of Yell county. … He did not want to admit taking the pony away because he was afraid it would implicate the Justice.

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 30, 1971

WEST MEMPHIS — Louis E. Dieg, Jr., 33, former vice president of the Bank of West Memphis, has been charged with embezzling $12,540.96 from the Bank between October 20, 1969, and August 5, 1971. Deig, a former federal bank examiner, joined the Bank in February 1967. Bank officials announced August 26 that Deig had resigned but declined further comment. Deig was arraigned before United States Magistrate John Mann and was released on his own recognizance.

25 YEARS AGO Sept. 30, 1996

■ The government’s mail fraud and money laundering case against Donald Pennington, the former chief executive of Harvest Foods Inc., is scheduled to start today in U.S. District Court in Little Rock. The 31-count federal indictment filed in March 1995 accuses Pennington, who lives in the Little Rock area, of receiving a portion of fees paid by Harvest Foods to John Oldner, a Bryant businessman and food broker, for consulting services. Billy John Armstrong, a Searcy food broker, also was indicted with Pennington and Oldner, but his case has been severed from the other two because of Armstrong’s ill health, lawyers said. The government contends that the three fraudulently obtained a total of $930,000 over the years and that Pennington and others also wrongly received $493,000 of the money paid to Oldner and Armstrong.

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 30, 2011

■ The Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct suspended a Little Rock lawyer, Scott Douglas Fletcher, for 60 months, fined him $10,000 and ordered him to pay $2,046 in fees. Fletcher was suspended for providing legal advice that resulted in his client, Jewell Rapier, selling land at a price below market value to a “straw man” company for $280,650 and then that company reselling that land to another company for $350,000, and for not instructing his client on her duties as executrix and trustee of an estate that included slightly more than 1,000 acres of undeveloped land in rural Saline County. Part of that land was involved in the sale to the straw man company.