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100 YEARS AGO June 12, 1919
SEARCY — At liberty for only 24 hours, Willis Campbell and Ernest Long, prisoners who escaped from the White county jail yesterday were captured two miles north of Bradford yesterday by Sheriff Plant, who was assisted in the search by Marshal Ernest Williams of Bradford and Deputies Carl Plant and Zane Plant. The men walked out of the jail yesterday morning, coming down the front stairway and going out a side entrance. Jailer Campbell was away and other officers were attending Chancery Court. Campbell has been a trusty for some time and had passed up several opportunities for escape. A boy saw them coming out of the jail yard and went to the sheriff’s office to notify him, but finding no one in, went away without giving the alarm. Another prisoner reported the escape to Marshal Williams after the men had time to get out of town.
50 YEARS AGO June 12, 1969
■ Someone entered the Jordan Liquor Store at 426 East Thirteenth Street, North Little Rock, early Wednesday morning and stole four cases of half-pint bottles of whiskey valued at $400, the police said. W. G. Jordan Jr….the store operator, told officers he opened up Wednesday morning and found the liquor missing and an 18-inch hole in a store wall. The police said an unsuccessful attempt had also been made to knock a hole in another wall in the store.
25 YEARS AGO June 12, 1994
■ An argument over a gambling debt sparked a gunfight at a party that injured a North Little Rock man, police report. Police said they saw juveniles fighting in the 1900 block of Franklin Street when they responded to a call reporting shots about 11:23 p.m. Friday. Officers found Chris Gill, 18, lying in the driveway of a house at 1912 Franklin with a gunshot wound in the upper left leg. …Police said they don’t know who shot Gill. Police said a search of the area turned up a shotgun in the front yard of a neighboring house on Franklin Street and two revolvers in a nearby back yard. A witness told police there were about 100 people at a party at the house when the shooting started. The witness told police many people were drinking and loud music was coming from the house. Another witness told police two men inside the house were arguing over a $5 gambling debt when one of the men, identified as “Little Larry,” started shooting a .38-caliber revolver. When the shooting started, Gill grabbed a .38-caliber revolver and another man grabbed a shotgun, and they both went into the front yard, police said. Many people in the front yard fled when police arrived, officers said.
10 YEARS AGO June 12, 2009
■ Police arrested a Little Rock man who claimed he was armed and demanded a soda at a movie theater Wednesday. William Brooks, 38, of 8620 W. 43rd St. was wearing sunglasses when he approached the UA Breckenridge movie theater employee behind the soda counter shortly before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, police said. Brooks told the employee that he had a gun and said that “things could get a lot worse if he pulled out the gun,” Little Rock police Lt. Dana Jackson said. After he was given a soda, Brooks fled the theater at 1200 Breckenridge Drive and was arrested outside by an off-duty officer.