Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Aug. 26-28, 1923 A suspected burglar was slain by Chief of Police A. Ross Armstrong at the intersection of the alley between Second and Third streets on Smith avenue this afternoon following attempts of the man to enter several houses in the neighborhood. He was shot three times, at least once in the head, after Armstong encountered him, ordered him into his Ford police touring car and the man allegedly replied, ”You drive on you ____, or I'll kill you,” drawing a gun. “Lincoln said, ‘You can't fool all the people all the of the time,’ but they sure can be fooled a long time," William Pickens, representative of the NAACP, declared in a lecture at Mt.