Other days
100 YEARS AGO July 2, 1918
PINE BLUFF — Miss Maggie E. Williams, age 20, who has been postmistress at Redland, came here today and met Deputy United States Marshal William Hodges to whom she surrendered after admitting that she was silent in her accounts at the post office. She recently notified the federal officers of her shortage, but declared she would kill herself rather than have an officer arrest her at her home and asked that an officer meet her in Pine Bluff today.
50 YEARS AGO July 2, 1968
FAYETTEVILLE — One person was injured fatally and another seriously injured Monday when a twin-engined jet crashed-landed in a field near the airport here after the pilot nursed the plane for 50 miles with both engines dead. Six others escaped serious injury. Jack Yeo of Kansas City, a passenger, died at 7 p.m., about two hours after the crash, at Washington General Hospital. A Federal Aviation Agency spokesman said it was “a miracle” that the pilot was able to bring the plane down.
25 YEARS AGO July 2, 1993
PLEASANT PLAINS — Retired firefighter James Thomas “Tom” Jackson, 61, of Pleasant Plains (Independence County) died Wednesday evening in a house fire that also injured his wife and son. “I bet after he retired Tom never thought he’d die in a fire,” next-door neighbor Merwin “Mert” Hays said. Jackson retired after 27 years with the Detroit Fire Department and moved next door to Hays 15 years ago. Firefighters found Jackson’s body slumped face forward against a wall between the kitchen and a back bedroom. A doorway 3 feet away led to an enclosed back porch that sustained very little fire damage. Neighbors reported the fire about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday after Jackson’s wife, Novis Modene Jackson, 58, yelled for help from her yard.
10 YEARS AGO July 2, 2008
A man guzzling soda to wash down what a Pulaski County deputy sheriff believed to be cocaine died early Tuesday at Baptist Health Medical Center in North Little Rock. Sheriff ’s office spokesman John Rehrauer said the death was under investigation. Deputy Greg Evans wrote in his report that he went with another deputy to a mobile home at Buford Road and Mimosa Lane after midnight looking for a stolen all-terrain vehicle. Evans didn’t find the four-wheeler he was looking for, he wrote, but he saw a man he thought he recognized lying back in the driver’s seat of a car in the driveway.