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100 YEARS AGO March 14, 1919
ST. CHARLES, March 13 – Dr. McBride of DeWitt was shot and instantly killed at DeWitt last Thursday by Constable Clarence Evans, following a quarrel about a horse. It is said that Evans secured a horse from the livery stable owned by Dr. McBride, which he brought back to the stable with the explanation that the animal was unsuited for riding. A quarrel followed, and it was alleged that Dr. McBride approached Evans in a threatening manner with a breast yoke, and that Evans fired, causing immediate death.
50 YEARS AGO March 14, 1969
WARREN — Two escapees from the Federal Correctional Institute at Texarkana were captured near here Thursday morning after a gun battle with police and a high-speed chase. … Warren police spotted a truck early Thursday that had been reported stolen at McGehee. Police said shots were exchanged and the truck left Warren on state Highway 4, going toward Monticello. It then turned south on state Highway 8 and ran a roadblock manned by State Police Lt. Otto Griffin of Lake Village and Trooper Fletcher Myers of Dermott. With the State Police and Warren officers in pursuit, the driver of the truck ran into a ditch about 10 miles southeast of here. Two men jumped out and ran into a wooded area. Bloodhounds from Cummins Prison Farm were brought to the area and the two escapees surrendered to the trusty guards handling the dogs. The men were armed but offered no resistance. … Officials said that a third man who escaped from the Texarkana prison at the same time was still at large.
25 YEARS AGO March 14, 1994
■ Someone poured black powder into an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette paper box at 4400 Pike Ave. in North Little Rock at 11 p.m. Saturday, laid a fuse on the powder, lit the fuse and blew the door off the box, police said. Sam Baggett, 42, who lives nearby, came to the scene. He told officers he thought the explosion was meant as a warning to him. He said he received a threatening telephone call an hour earlier. The caller told him that “the next time it won’t be a paper box,” he told police. Baggett gave the police the name of a man he thought made the threatening call. The man admitted hating Baggett, but said he did not blow up the box and did not threaten Baggett.
10 YEARS AGO March 14, 2009
■ A day-care operator in Scott voluntarily shuttered her business Friday after mistaking bright blue windshield-wiper fluid for a sugary drink and serving it to 10 children. State records show that Carolyn Bynum, 63, holds the license to the day care in a house at 1264 Kesl Road. “She’s closing the day care, surrendering her license, whatever you want to call it,” state Department of Human Services spokesman Julie Munsell said. “She has been very upset by what happened. She has no intention to keep operating.” A worker at the day care went shopping Thursday, and Bynum unloaded the groceries, placing a bottle of the cleaner in the refrigerator, Munsell said. Bynum poured the children their blue drinks and learned that something was wrong only when one child complained about the taste, Munsell said.