Andrews Petition

Shughart, P. J.,

Ninth Judicial District, Specially Presiding,

A disastrous mine explosion occurred in Robena No. 3 Mine in Greene County on December 8,1962, which took the lives of 37 miners. Subsequently, on March 4, 1963, Frank Behm, Coroner of Greene County, filed reports in the Quarter Sessions Court of Greene County respecting the death of each of the miners killed. The reports stated that death in each case was a “sudden death not of suspicious nature”. The reports were presented in open court and were approved and marked to be filed.

On June 3, 1963, petitions were filed on behalf of the…