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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 1, 1920
HOT SPRINGS — Melvin Lockett twice refused to answer questions in the grand jury room yesterday in the election investigation, and after being ordered the second time taken to jail to await a change of mind, he broke and ran from the custody of Deputy Whitney Curl as the latter was unlocking the jail door to place him inside. He, however, later surrendered to his attorney, Berry Randolph, and will appear in court at 9 o’clock this morning.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 1, 1970
■ Seventeen State Police units were sent to Blytheville Monday night after fires damaged two stores and windows were broken in others. The trouble erupted several hours after the funeral for a Negro slain Friday while picketing a white-owned grocery. Police Chief George Ford said at 12:15 a.m. today that there had been no arrests and no injuries reported. One of the fires was at the used furniture store formerly owned by Ernest Ray, who was bound over Monday to Mississippi County Circuit Court on a first-degree murder charge in the shooting of Carter Williams, 37.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 1, 1995
for a Lonoke County bait farm won’t let an accused minnow and goldfish thief off the hook unless the thief gives the farm about $25,000, which is $22,500 more than the law allows for restitution. “It stinks,” said John Ogles of Jacksonville, who is an attorney for John T. Hays of Texas. “They’re using the criminal courts to collect a civil debt.” Hays was charged with one count of theft, a Class C felony, on Dec. 3, 1994, after Hayes was caught by Lonoke County deputies leaving Anderson Farms with more minnows and goldfish loaded on his one-ton truck than he had bought. The nearly 700 pounds of minnows and 65 pounds of goldfish were returned to the minnow farm just west of Lonoke shortly after they were seized in the arrest, deputies said Tuesday.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 1, 2010
WALNUT GROVE — The three-person crew of a privately owned medical helicopter died before dawn Tuesday when their aircraft crashed and caught fire in rural Van Buren County. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident but has not determined what caused the Bell 206 LongRanger to crash into a small field near a mobile home on Arkansas 95, air-safety investigator Jennifer Rodi said.