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100 YEARS AGO March 2, 1919

DARDANELLE, March 1 — The body of a youth apparently about 19 years old was found in a drift on the river bank seven miles below town today. There were no marks of identification on his clothes or body. He had red hair and was dressed in a black shirt and black trousers. The coroner’s verdict was that he came to his death by drowning.

50 YEARS AGO March 2, 1969

■ Two police cars answering a call to a fight at the Dixie Cab Company, 523 West Markham Street, collided in front of the Municipal Police and Courts building about 7:40 p.m. Saturday. Both drivers were injured, neither seriously. Officers said Patrolman W. R. Mikoleit, 39, of Route 2, Bigelow, suffered head cuts and was admitted at the Arkansas Baptist Medical Center. Patrolman R. L. Jenkins was treated and released, they said. Officers said Jenkins was headed east in the 700 Block of West Markham at the time of the crash. Mikoleit had been traveling West and attempted a U-turn, turning in front of Jenkins’ car. Both vehicles were heavily damaged, the police said.

25 YEARS AGO March 2, 1994

STUTTGART — Arkansas County authorities expected Tuesday the return of two of three escaped prisoners arrested Saturday in Memphis. Arkansas County Sheriff Wayne Simpson said deputies expected to pick up Terry Sims and Albert Bell, both 17, from Shelby County, Tenn., authorities. Police arrested the pair, along with Golden Thom III, 18, at a Memphis motel. Thom had not signed extradition papers Tuesday. Simpson said the trio escaped with two other prisoners Feb. 18 from Arkansas County Jail. Authorities later caught two of the escapees in Pine Bluff and near Jacksonville. A judge sentenced Sims to life in prison the day before his escape. A jury convicted him of capital murder in the December 1992 shootings of Mary Lou Jones and Julian Russell at Cloud’s Grocery in Casscoe, about 10 miles east of Stuttgart. Authorities had held Bell in the same case and Thom on a charge of criminal attempt to commit murder.

10 YEARS AGO March 2, 2009

■ The 66-year-old owner of a nightclub near downtown Little Rock was found dead in his office early Sunday morning after firefighters responded to reports of a fire at the club. Roy Millsap, owner of the Palace Club at 1515 Wright Ave., was discovered about 7:30 a.m. in an office next to the club’s kitchen, according to police and Little Rock Fire Department Capt. Jason Weaver. The room was full of smoke, Weaver said, and the bulk of the fire was in the kitchen. Millsap was pronounced dead at the scene, Weaver said. The cause of the fire and Millsap’s death were both under investigation Sunday, police and fire officials said. Weaver said the fire was extinguished within 30 minutes, but firefighters were slowed in their entry of the building because of security bars on all the doors.