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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 15, 1917

■ “I made the bull, and that’s all there is to it,” City Detective George Lewis told Mayor Taylor and the members of the Police Committee at their meeting yesterday afternoon at the city hall to inquire into his action in releasing from police headquarters C. W. Rogers, who had been sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and to serve three months imprisonment for his connection with an alleged swindling scheme. “I made the mistake, but I thought I was doing what was right,” said Lewis. “I thought it had been arranged that if Rogers paid his fine of $100 he would be relieved of the jail sentence and discharged.”

50 YEARS AGO Dec. 15, 1967

■ County Judge Arch Campbell took a few verbal swipes at planning agencies Thursday, indicating that he opposed North Little Rock’s plan to encircle neighboring Sherwood and then postponed until Jan. 18 a hearing on Sherwood’s petition to extend its city limits northward. The judge declared that he thought it was unfair that he should have to decide whether North Little Rock or Sherwood is to annex a large territory of Sylvan Hills when the county was spending money for planning. The cities have approved annexation plans that overlap.

25 YEARS AGO Dec. 15, 1992

■ County health officials reported a large turnout Monday by people who wanted their blood tested for mercury contamination from eating fish taken from two South Arkansas rivers. “We are getting a lot of phone calls,” said Wanda Taulbee, administrative public health nurse for the Bradley County Health Unit. Taulbee said the unit had received about 30 calls from people wanting to participate in the state Department of Health’s three-day program, which began Monday.

10 YEARS AGO Dec. 15, 2007

■ A Pulaski County jury Friday rejected the insanity defense of a 25-yearold Jacksonville man who stabbed a 5-year-old North Little Rock girl more than 100 times before suffocating her. The seven women and five men deliberated a little more than four hours before convicting Howard H. Neal Jr. of capital murder and kidnapping. He received an automatic life sentence. No one disputed during Neal’s three-day trial before Circuit Judge Timothy Fox that Neal killed Jasmine Peoples or that Neal is mentally ill, diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder.