Record, Monroe

Note: See Monroe Reckard entry also. Spelling of name a problem, and grave information unknown. Liddie Record, widow of Monroe Record, a miner, who was killed while working for the White Mining Company, received a judgment of $2,500.00 in District court Saturday. Record lived at Picher Oklahoma. An unexploded charge of dynamite was given as the cause of the miner's death, which occurred August 16. The suit was filed Saturday morning and a judgment entered a short time later. Note: one newspaper article has name as Monroe Reckard and the other has name as Monroe Record.

Nola Smith, as next friend to Liddie Record and Herman Record, filed suit in District court Friday against Otis White and others for $20,000. According to the petition, Monroe Record was killed while working as a shoveler in a mine of the defendants, when he struck an unexploded charge of dynamite. The plaintiff claims the accident was due to the negligence and carelessness of the defendants. According to the petition, the defendant was 23 years of age, with an expectancy of 30 years, and was capable of earning about $1,500 a year.