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100 YEARS AGO April 7, 1917

HOT SPRINGS — Sheriff Tom Bledsoe was today convicted of nonfeasance. This is the first trial of officials indicted by the former Grand Jury. Judge Scott Wood held that the conviction carried with it permanent removal from oce. Bledsoe’s attorneys contend that it does not and the court will hear arguments on this point tomorrow. When Sheriff Bledsoe was indicted he was temporarily removed from office and Brad O. Smith, Democratic nominee, was appointed.

50 YEARS AGO April 7, 1967

■ Thomas Ray Yon, 31, who told the police he lives at the Capitol Hotel, was arrested at 7:25 p.m. Tuesday and charged with burglary and grand larceny after he was found in the closet of a house at 1605 South Cedar Street, officers said. Yon was bound over to Circuit Court in Municipal Court Wednesday. Mrs. Geraldine Douglas, the owner of the house, said she was at work Wednesday night when her next door neighbor called her and told her someone was breaking into her home.

25 YEARS AGO April 7, 1992

■ A North Little Rock fire official said Monday the design and construction of a medical building destroyed by fire over the weekend contributed to its quick consumption. Fire Marshal Bob Wilson said he thinks the McCain Professional Building at 3629 McCain Blvd. “barely” met minimum standards for fire safety. Wilson said the design of the three-story, atrium-style building and an inadequate number of water sprinklers contributed to the quick spread of the fire that broke out about 10:30 p.m. Friday.

10 YEARS AGO April 7, 2007

■ As a Little Rock police cruiser chased a maroon Saturn SL2 toward the intersection of Wright Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, an officer warned over the radio: “He’s going to run the light.” An instant later, the intersection exploded with noise and vehicles violently smashing into one another, flinging hunks of metal dozens of feet through the air. Once calm had returned late Friday morning, three vehicles sat smashed, dripping coolant and oil, and two others were damaged less severely. Nearly a dozen people sat dazed in their crippled vehicles, some stunned, others with gruesome injuries. And slowly, police, paramedics and spectators arrived. The chase began about 10:15 a.m. at Martin Luther King Drive and Roosevelt Road, where patrol officers spotted the parked Saturn. The car was listed as being driven without the owner’s consent.