100 years ago
Oct. 7, 1917
FORT SMITH -- The Grand Jury ignored the case of Delia Young, aged 15, charged with grand larceny and who was one of the central figures in a white slave case pending in the United States District Court. She was arrested August 21, last, on a charge of stealing a pocket book from Mrs. Lizzie Boozman, 923 North Fifteenth street, in a downtown store where Mrs. Boozman was shopping. The pocketbook contained $4.75 and pins valued at $50. The property was recovered from the girl at her home.
50 years ago
Oct. 7, 1967
• Governor Rockefeller said Friday that the latest State Police raids on Hot Springs gambling carried out "what I promised I would do." "I had confidence that Lynn Davis [State Police director] could do it," he said. "Many people around the state now know that I meant what I said." The pressure on gambling in Hot Springs and elsewhere in the state is not designed to enhance the public image of Davis because of a lawsuit questioning the director's eligibility to hold the job under a residency requirement, the governor added.
25 years ago
Oct. 7, 1992
FAYETTEVILLE -- A Fayetteville man charged in a 1991 murder case is expected to be arraigned this morning on charges he killed a Fayetteville couple July 30 of this year, six days before he was arrested in the first slaying. Jeffery Scott Thomas, 20, was charged Tuesday with two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Montgomery "Monty" Overbo, 33, and Rebecca Johnson Overbo, 19, whose bodies were discovered Aug. 1 at their home. A friend of the couple alerted police after finding what appeared to be bloodstains on their porch.
10 years ago
Oct. 7, 2007
• A woman, convinced that her fiance was cheating on her, stabbed him in the groin area early Saturday morning, severing a major artery and killing him after she caught him at another woman's house, neighbors who witnessed the ordeal said. "It was a horrible sight," said neighbor Mary Tolbert, who was woken up by the dispute about 2 a.m. "She really didn't know she cut him that bad." Police said Saturday that they do not know how many times the victim, Holbert Chisim, 28, of Little Rock, was stabbed. Police spokesman Terry Kuykendall confirmed that Chisim was stabbed in the leg.
Metro on 10/07/2017