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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 1917

FAYETTEVILLE — Josh Thompson, aged 60, a negro, was fatally shot by an officer shortly after 4 o’clock this morning when he resisted arrest for burglary. The negro died a few minutes after he was shot. Both Chief of Police W. A. Gregg and Deputy Sheriff S. H. Guinn fired at the negro, and neither knows which fired the fatal shot. Thompson had just been caught burglarizing a grocery store and threw a brick at the officers, barely missing Guinn’s head. No arrests have been made.

50 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 1967

FAYETTEVILLE — At least 500 students are expected to gather this morning in front of the University of Arkansas library, where President David W. Mullins has his office, to protest the latest bar to publication of the U of A’s literary magazine, Preview. Someone, as of yet unidentified, is expected to read the four controversial poems that twice have led to refusals to print the magazine. Preview went unpublished last year when A.W. Blake, head of the university printing plant, said they were obscene and refused to print the magazine if the poems were included.

25 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 1992

RUSSELLVILLE — A man suspected of stabbing his wife to death Monday was arrested Wednesday night in a motel room where he held a 17-year-old girl hostage, authorities said Thursday. Police will ask that David Malick, 26, of Morrilton (Conway County), be charged with capital murder and kidnapping, Morrilton Police Chief Jim Williams said. Malick is suspected of murdering Virginia Malick, 31, his wife, and of kidnapping Melissa Harris, 17, of Morrilton, Williams said. Malick was also charged with capital murder and kidnapping in the Jan. 1989, slaying of Pamela Smith, 24, of Atkins.

10 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 2007

CONWAY — A man charged with gunning down his estranged wife just moments after she obtained a court order of protection pleaded no contest Monday to capital murder. Former welder Stephen McCoy, 39, of Conway was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the April 4, 2006, death of Betty McCoy, 37. The state contended he shot her three times as she was placing an order in the drive-through at Church’s Chicken in downtown Conway. The prosecution, which recommended a life sentence, had previously planned to seek the death penalty had the case gone to trial and resulted in a conviction.