110 years ago
May 7, 1914
First writing his will, in which he left $300 to his father, Henry Hope, of Held, Crook County, Oregon, on a slip of wrapping paper, Ernest Hope, age 22, a dish washer, swallowed the contents of a bottle of carbolic acid in his room at Fifteenth and Glisan streets. Ill health is thought to be the cause for the act.
75 years ago
May 5, 1949
Two convicts, Ralph E. Neyman, 26, and Henry Bradley, 27, who escaped from the state penitentiary in Salem early Sunday, were apprehended here Monday afternoon by Chief of Police Earl Shaw and returned to Salem Tuesday.
Chief Shaw reported a car stalled at Third and Main at about 2:30 Monday afternoon.
“The two men in the car acted suspicious," Shaw said, "so I followed them after they fixed the car. They tried to shake me when we got in front of the courthouse but finally stopped their car at Fourth and Belknap. Both claimed ownership of the car then said they had borrowed it in Eugene."
Chief Shaw placed a call to Eugene, but before it was completed, the two men admitted that they had stolen the car in Sheridan.
"A call was placed to McMinnville, and the sheriff said the two men were still serving time, and it was then I knew that they were the escaped convicts," Chief Shaw said.
The escapees first drove to Newport and back through Salem to Eugene, where they hid out Monday night near the McKenzie River, Chief Shaw said. Monday morning, they resumed their trip and arrived in Prineville in the early afternoon. Warden George Alexander and two guards took the men back to Salem Tuesday afternoon.
50 years ago
May 6, 1974
The Allen Garner family of Prineville had some unexpected company in their living room last Tuesday as the result of a jammed accelerator on a car.
Michael Wayne Prewitt, 17, 806 SE Fifth St., was driving a 1965 Chevrolet east on Laughlin Road at approximately 55 miles per hour. As he started to negotiate a left curve, the accelerator stuck.
Prewitt hit the brakes, leaving skid marks for 54 feet on the pavement. The car then went onto the south shoulder for 105 feet, flew over a 3-foot embankment for 39 feet and landed in the yard of the Allen Garner family on Davis Road.
The car continued on for 18 more feet and crashed into the Garner kitchen, barely missing the bedroom, where children were sleeping. The rest of the family was in the living room when the accident occurred.
25 years ago
May 6, 1999
To some officials and parents, the recent rash of students assaulting teachers and staff members at the Crook County Middle School is near epidemic. At the present time, the county district attorney's office has four cases pending.
This, D.A. Gary Williams said, is the most he's seen in the past nine years.
"Since 1990, there has been only one assault case involving a student and a teacher. A few years ago, a high school student fighting with another student stabbed the vice principal who got in the middle of the battle."
Apparently that student was using brass knuckles, which had a spike soldered to one ridge, and when the vice principal attempted to stop the fight, got stabbed in the leg. The student, Williams said, was successfully prosecuted on two counts of assault.
In the latest spate of incidents however, it's the Crook County Middle School that has had problems with students harassing and assaulting teachers. The first case involved a 13-year-old boy who reportedly attempted to leave a classroom with a notebook belonging to another boy. When stopped in the hallway by a teacher, the student proceeded to kick the teacher in the shins and shout obscenities. Taken back to the classroom, the student reportedly began throwing chairs around the room.
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