100 years ago
Sept. 3, 1917
TEXARKANA -- Special Officer Andrew J. Lumus last night arrested and lodged in jail a negro lad named Rastus Lewis, about 13 years old, on a charge of horse stealing. It is alleged the boy stole a horse valued at about $50 from another negro at Mandeville, seven miles east of here, yesterday afternoon. He brought the animal to town and sold it for $5. He then took the money and proceeded to invest it in two shirts with big red stripes, two red silk handkerchiefs, some red socks and a red necktie. He was a veritable vision of flaming red, with a very black setting, when arrested by the officer. He took his arrest and incarceration good-naturedly, his only worry seeming to be a fear that he may have to give up his new purchases.
50 years ago
Sept. 3, 1967
BALD KNOB -- Five persons were killed and six others were injured in a four-car collision about 8 a.m. Saturday on U.S. Highway 67 about five miles north of here near Russell (White County). Dead are Bobby L. Johnson, 28, and his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Marie Johnson, both of 3607 West Thirty-first Street, Little Rock; and Mrs. Otherine Harmon, 38, Miss Marie Macklin, 19, and Michael Macklin, 12, all of Chicago. State Police Maj. William E. Miller identified the drivers of the cars as Johnson, Miss Macklin, James Thomas, 64, of Newark, and Sterling Slaughter, 51, of Chicago.
25 years ago
Sept. 3, 1992
PINE BLUFF -- Five students at Jack Robey Junior High School here were arrested Wednesday morning for disorderly conduct after a fight broke out on the third day of school. According to Assistant Chief Joe Thomas of the Pine Bluff Police Department, the youths were being held in the Pine Bluff Jail despite being 13 to 15 years old. "We want to send them a message," Thomas said. "We want them to know we're out here."
10 years ago
Sept. 3, 2007
• Police on Sunday arrested a third man in the shooting deaths of two men whose bodies were found in Little Rock's Hindman Park last year. Nathan Gilcrease, 24, of Little Rock was arrested at 6:45 p.m. on two counts of capital murder in the deaths of 21-year-old Monte Johnson and his cousin, 18-year-old Sean Johnson. The men's bodies, stripped and bound with duct tape, were found in the park June 5, 2006. Cameron Williams of Little Rock was arrested in the killings in February, and Albert Reed Jr., whom police listed as homeless, was arrested in March.
Metro on 09/03/2017