Hewett, Chester Lee

Picher Oklahoma, Chester Lee Hewett, 19, who was injured at the Evans-Wallower Mine No. 7 Saturday, Jan 2, 1937, died in a local hospital at 6 o'clock this morning. Hewett was said to have been greasing a conveyor gear wheel when the paddle he was using was caught in the gears throwing him into the machinery and injuring his right hand and leg. His back also was injured. He was brought to the Picher hospital at Picher in a Todd ambulance from Picher. Hewett was well known in Picher, having resided here most of his life. He was a graduate of the Picher high school. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Muriel Hewett, 422 South Emily street; his mother, Mrs. Iness Smith, two brothers, Horace Hewett and Paul Hewett of Picher Oklahoma, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Wright of Webb City Missouri. Funeral services will be held at 8 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Burial will be in G.A.R. cemetery at Miami. The Durnil funeral home is in charge.

Muriel Hewett, widow of the late Chester Lee Hewett of Picher Oklahoma, has filed suit in district court at Miami for damages totaling $13,450 as a result of a mine accident that led to her husband's death Jan. 4th. The Evans-Wallower Lead company is named defendant in the information, which charges the company with negligence in arrangement of equipment at No. 7 mill north of Cardin Oklahoma. Hewett received fatal injuries Jan 1, when his clothing was caught in cog wheels and belt of a conveyor. The widow asks $10,000 in pecuniary damages, $3,000 for suffering endured, the petition states, by her husband prior to death and $450 for medical and burial expenses.