The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
January 14, 1908
page 5

Neck Is Broken By A Hard Fall

Body of a railway mail clerk is found in his room.

[descriptive conditions]...Merrick Smith, a mail clerk on the Frisco, was found in his room at the home of Mrs. B. A. Evans, at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon...body at the Street & Harper undertaking morgue...body was sent to Kansas City, Kan., last night over the Frisco, where he resided with a wife and three children. Smith was 40 years old.