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100 YEARS AGO March 30, 1917

CONWAY — Other arrests may follow that of Clarence A. Wren, local printer, who early Monday morning killed J. Alfred Day at the home of Wren’s wife, it is rumored. It is said that the state will attempt to prove at the preliminary hearing of Wren before Justice Easterwood tomorrow that Day was decoyed to the scene of the murder by a messenger, who carried word to him that Mrs. Mary Davis, Mrs. Wren’s mother, wished to see him.

50 YEARS AGO March 30, 1967

■ The two newspaper reporters who were jailed at Little Rock last week for contempt of court were placed back in the County Jail Wednesday for not surrendering to Circuit Judge William J. Kirby after their appeal of the contempt citation was dismissed by the state Supreme Court at the reporters’ request. Judge Kirby issued bench warrants Wednesday morning for the newsmen — Jack Baker, 27, of the Arkansas Gazette, and Michael B. Smith, 24, of the Pine Bluff Commercial. The sheriff’s office notified Baker of the warrants by telephone and both reporters surrendered voluntarily at 2 p. m. — Baker at the sheriff ’s office in the County Courthouse and Smith at the County Jail.

25 YEARS AGO March 30, 1992

■ When the North Little Rock High SchoolWest Campus ended up with a large number of students in study hall last fall, teachers encouraged students to take electives. Three more sections of nonrequired Physical Education II courses were added by the second semester. The certified teachers who had overseen those study halls were reassigned to the extra physical education courses, according to the latest printout of the district’s master teaching schedule.

10 YEARS AGO March 30, 2007

CABOT — An admitted methamphetamine cook testified Thursday that former Lonoke Police Chief Jay Campbell and Bobby Junior Cox, a bail bondsman, recruited him to cook and plant drugs on someone in hopes that person would turn in a fugitive who had jumped a substantial bond posted by Cox. The statements came in the 16th day of testimony in the felony trial of Campbell; his wife, Kelly Campbell; and Cox. The three are accused of conspiring as part of a criminal organization seeking drugs, sex and money. For most of the previous 15 days of testimony, prosecutors have focused on the myriad charges against the Campbells.