Hi Sandra, I had a homicide to get details on from central Arkansas, ca. 1908. The local paper had published continuously from those days but said it had no archives that far back. In my case, the Arkansas Gazette of the day had a front page story which was found in the State Archives at Little Rock. I pinned down the date, then looked at MY library for papers in publication, found the one for that area, got nowhere with current management, got a suggestion to check the State Archives in Little Rock and then got a researcher through them .... who found it !! ...fairly roundabout, but maybe something like that would work for your story hunt. The current coroner and the current court clerk never answered my inquiries to them, even with SASE used. ron in CA At 09:07 PM 01/11/2000 -0600, you wrote: >Researching Owen and Atkisson (Adkission?--different spellings) >families. They lived in the area 1900 to 1930. John Adkission was >convicted of poisoning his wife, Maude Owen Adkisson, in 1926 in Stidham >area. Anyone know how I could find newspaper article or court records >regarding this case? Sandra Owen Thompson > > >============================== >The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >12.8 million individuals and counting. >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >