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Surname
BROWN
Forename
Alexander
Day
30
Month
12
Year
1924
Age
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Earnock
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
John Watson Ltd
Location
Hamilton
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
30 December 1924: Miner's Widow Gets £600 Compensation – An award of £600 as compensation for the death of her husband, Alexander Brown, has, in Hamilton Sheriff Court, been made to Mrs Edith Matthews or Brown, 61 Russell Street, Burnbank, who sued the deceased's employers, John Watson (Ltd.), coalmasters, Hamilton. The claimant averred that her husband's death was caused or accelerated by gas poisoning received at his work in respondents' Earnock Colliery. It was submitted on behalf of the employers that the cause of death was bacterial and not toxic in origin, but this was rejected by Sheriff Shennan, who heard the proof. [Scotsman 16 January 1926]