100 years ago
Nov. 27, 1917
JUNCTION CITY -- Ed Boyce, aged 25, a farmer, was shot and then clubbed to death at his home about 8 o'clock last night, by some unknown person who used a .38 caliber revolver and a piece of heavy iron pipe as weapons. Mystery surrounds the shooting and sensational developments are expected. At the inquest today Boyce's wife said that her husband was called from the house by a man and went to the barn, which was about 30 feet away. In a few minutes she says she heard a scuffle and a shot.
50 years ago
Nov. 27, 1967
EL DORADO -- A 33-car Missouri Pacific Lines freight train struck and killed Mrs. Rachel Benson Bessie, 60, of Norphlet (Union County) Saturday morning. Union County officers said Mrs. Bessie was walking along the railroad tracks about a mile north of Norphlet. Her husband, Joe Bessie, had reported her missing about an hour earlier. Officers quoted engineer Charles E. Benson of Smackover and fireman C. E. Whitefield of El Dorado as saying they saw Mrs. Bessie and blew the trains whistle, but they could not stop in time. She was knocked about 30 feet.
25 years ago
Nov. 27, 1992
CONWAY --City and county officials are talking about building a juvenile justice center in an area accounting for nearly half of the crime in Conway. "It would create a high presence in that area where we have those problems," Faulkner County Circuit Chancery Judge Watson Villines of Conway said. He said he is also working on the possibility of opening a boot camp in Van Buren County for juveniles in Searcy, Van Buren, and Faulkner counties. Villines said the justice center proposal, which is in its early stages, calls for the center to be built neat Siebenmorgen Road and Harkrider Street.
10 years ago
Nov. 27, 2007
• A man who murdered a Little Rock boy when he was a teenager will stay in prison for at least six more years after Gov. Mike Beebe denied his clemency request over the Thanksgiving weekend. Robert Finnegan, 50, was convicted in 1973 of murdering 6-year-old Michael Devine in a storage room in the younger boy's house at 7001 W. Markham St. in the Briarwood neighborhood. The Aug. 21 murder shocked Little Rock because both the victim and murderer were children and the attack was so brutal: Finnegan stabbed Michael 37 times with a hunting knife after the 15-year-old asked the younger boy to play hide and seek outside his family home.
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