100 years ago
March 27, 1918
• Ten days ago the military police found a soldier's coat with a note pinned to it in the Capital hotel, Markham and Louisiana streets. The note was address to military authorities. The note was signed by Otto Heitz, private in Battery F. 336th Field Artillery. About 5:30 yesterday afternoon, Fred Jordan, a white farmer, who was returning from Little Rock in a motorboat, found [Heitz's] body lodged against a sandbar, called "Keat's Island," about five miles east of Little Rock. He notified military authorities, who notified P. H. Ruebel & Co., undertakers.
50 years ago
March 27, 1968
• College delegates to the Student Arkansas Education Association convention Saturday at State College of Arkansas at Conway will vote on a proposed constitution that will merge the college members of the SAEA with the college members of their Negro counterpart, the Student Arkansas Teachers Association. The Negro members will hold a similar vote at their convention April 5 at Arkansas Baptist College at Little Rock. The SAEA has about 1,750 members in 17 college chapters; the SATA has about 500 members in four college chapters.
25 years ago
March 27, 1993
JONESBORO -- Jacksonville police on Friday arrested Robert Lewis Rockett, 19, of Sweet Home, on one count each of capital murder and aggravated robbery in the March 10 slaying of a convenience store clerk. Rockett was one of four Little Rock residents arrested by Jonesboro police late Thursday night. The arrests prompted law enforcement officials from across the state to converge in Jonesboro to question the four in a number of recent crimes.
10 years ago
March 27, 2008
• Detectives had a warrant to arrest Dale Gatlin Jr. in the death of his 6-week-old daughter, but didn't know where he was. Then, on Wednesday, someone tipped them off: He was at Baptist Health Medical Center in North Little Rock, where a woman had given birth to his second child a day earlier. At 5:30 p.m., North Little Rock police arrested Gatlin at the hospital on a charge of capital murder. About 8 p.m., the slender 18-year-old, wearing a white hooded jacket and jeans, proclaimed his innocence as he was escorted by an officer to a patrol car that would take him to the Pulaski County jail.
Metro on 03/27/2018