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100 years ago

Jan. 19, 1918

BATESVILLE -- The Batesville high school boys this year have given $150 to the Y.M.C.A. war work fund and more than 100 children are members of the Red Cross. The schools have taken $100 in war savings stamps. For the past two years the boys have been drilling and are ready to go if called. The boys are making boxes for Red Cross use and have service flags with 30 stars. There are 32 boys in the United States army and navy from Batesville.

50 years ago

Jan. 19, 1968

ATKINS -- Miss Paulette Fridell, 20, of Atkins was found fatally shot about 1:30 a.m. Thursday in the kitchen of her parents' home here. Pope County Coroner Dr. W. Ernest King said Thursday night that his investigation was incomplete. The sheriff's office and State Police are assisting with the investigation. The coroner said Miss Fridell was struck in the chest by a single shot from a .38-caliber pistol. A pistol was lying beside the body, officers said, when she was found by her parents Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Fridell. Miss Fridell was a graduate of Atkins High School.

25 years ago

Jan. 19, 1993

CONWAY -- Attorney Frank Shaw shares a characteristic with many attorneys appointed to handle death penalty cases: He's never defended a person charged with capital murder. On Feb. 9, Shaw will handle his first death penalty case while representing Chris Stone, 19, of Greenbrier (Faulkner County). Stone is accused of murdering Daniel Robert Arrowood, 20, of Greenbrier, on Nov. 15 1991. If convicted, Stone faces life in prison without parole or the death penalty. "It just overwhelms you," Shaw said about death penalty cases in general and especially about handling one.

10 years ago

Jan. 19, 2008

• A Pulaski County jury deliberated less than an hour Thursday to find a 34-year-old Little Rock man guilty of two counts of rape for molesting the same child his father had pleaded guilty to molesting. The decision by the nine women and three men sends Jeremiah Walton to prison with his father, Douglas Earl Walton, 56, who admitted last year to molesting the victim in a separate series of assaults when she was between the ages of 6 and 9. He pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault in September in exchange for a seven-year prison sentence that makes him eligible for parole in another nine months.

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