100 years ago
April 27, 1918
• Henry Palmer, white, convict at the state farm at Tucker, was killed in a battle between Carl Lewis, another convict, and guards, Thursday night early, when Lewis attempted to escape. Lewis is declared by penitentiary officials to be the most desperate man at Tucker. How he secured two revolvers is not known, but officials are trying to find out. Lewis was sent up for three years for robbing the bank of Huttig of $10,000 about two years ago. He was captured at Malvern about a year later and $4,000 was taken from him at the time of the arrest. He was convicted and sentenced to serve three years. Palmer, who was killed, was sent up from Hope for grand larceny.
50 years ago
April 27, 1968
TEXARKANA -- David S. Ogle, a medical technologist at a pathology clinic at Texarkana, testified here Friday at an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing that discontinuance of train service to Texarkana would create difficulty in the area of health and welfare. Ogle was one of three persons who testified in protest of a Missouri Pacific Line's proposal to discontinue two passenger trains between Texarkana and St. Louis. Ogle said the pathology clinic served doctors, hospitals and other clinics. He said blood samples could be obtained overnight and returned the next day through the use of the trains.
25 years ago
April 27, 1993
PINE BLUFF -- A wide range of medical issues affecting the state Department of Correction will be addressed in a May 10 special meeting of the Board of Correction at Little Rock, including heath-care personnel's failure to attend to a dying inmate despite guards' requests. The contractor for the prison system's health care PHP Health Care Systems Inc. of Alexandria, Va., will have representatives at the meeting, which also will include discussion of PHP's contract renewal and of a controversial program that allows inmates to sell their blood.
10 years ago
April 27, 2008
• MAGNOLIA -- New details have emerged in the case of a Magnolia woman accused of arranging sexual liaisons between two girls with boys and men. An arrest warrant for one count of rape was issued Thursday for Dustin Lloyd Rowland, 21, of Union County, said Magnolia Police Chief Robert Gorum. Officers continue to search for Rowland. As of Saturday, no other new arrest warrants had been issued. Police said Thursday that they had charged Donna Lou Sanders, 46, of Magnolia, with 12 counts of permitting abuse of a minor and 10 counts of rape.
Metro on 04/27/2018