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100 YEARS AGO May 22, 1918
HARTFORD — Roy Smith, who was shot and slightly wounded by Clayton Faught about two weeks ago, today killed Faught in the pool hall where the first shooting affray took place. Smith used an automatic revolver and pumped five bullets into Faught’s body. The latter died almost instantly. Faught was armed, but did not have time to pull his revolver. The two men were brothers-in-law and there had been a long-standing feud between them. Smith surrendered to the officers and was released on $500 bond.
50 YEARS AGO May 22, 1968
Governor Rockefeller’s riot prevention bill (HB 22) was introduced in the House of Representatives Tuesday by Representative James L. Sheets of Siloam Springs. The bill authorizes the governor to declare a state of emergency and to prohibit certain acts, including the selling of liquor. It also makes the destruction of property during a state of emergency a felony and sets a penalty of not more than 10 years imprisonment.
25 YEARS AGO May 22, 1993
An infant who was abandoned in a chapel at University Hospital on Mother’s Day went home with a foster mother Friday. “I am glad the baby is going with this mother because she’s wonderful. But I’m sad he’s leaving us,” said Cindy Pruett, a social worker at the hospital. Terry Koopman, assistant head nurse, got teary-eyed about the infant’s leaving. “The foster mother is delightful,” Koopman said. “She is a very special person. You have to be special to do what she does.” The foster mother, who asked that her name not be used, said that she has cared for 12 to 15 infants since she became a foster mother in Arkansas in August 1991.
10 YEARS AGO May 22, 2008
The last of three brothers accused in the December slaying of 6-year-old Kamya Weathersby surrendered to police Wednesday, and federal authorities revealed that the girl’s baby sister, mother and the mother’s boyfriend were fired at in a drive-by shooting at the mother’s North Little Rock home two weeks ago. No one was injured in the May 12 gunfire on Arrowhead Road, but several rounds struck the beige 1998 Cadillac Seville of Kamya’s mother, 26-year-old Lashandria Washington. Bullets found at the scene were the same make and caliber as those found at the Little Rock home where Kamya was killed, court records show.