TITANIC INQUIRY.
©RDERED TO ROW AWAY.
BRIBERY STORY UNTRUE,
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyricht. ■ (Rec. May 19, 5.5 p.m.)
London, liny 18. On the resumption of the Titanic inquiry, Hendircksen, a fireman, recalled •was asked why he stated that Sir Cosmo and Lady DulT-Gordon prevented the boat returning. He explained that he thought tlif question referred to the crow. Jj r . Symons, who was in charge of the boat, testified that he did not think it sat'o to return to the rescue lest the bont be swamped. He did not hear anyone suggest returning. He now realised that ho might have saved a good many. The story of an American millionaire bribing the crew was untrno. He admitted that someone representing the Duff-Gor-dons obtained a signed statement from liim. The Duff-Gordons' counsel stated ( that the solicitor, mistakenly supposing that he was retuine.d for the Duff-Gordons, interviewed Mi'. Symons.
Taylor, a fireman, testified that ho heard someone suggest return, and Lady Duff-Gordon talk of tho risk of swamping. Two male passengers agreed that it was dangerous, and then Mr. Symons ordered them to row away. They could have saved twenty-five or thirty people.
In his evidence given on May 10, Hendrickson stated that ho and five other firemen were aboard the emergency boat, with Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff-Gordon and threo othors. They were two hundred yards from the Titanic when she sunk. They heard the agonising cries, and he urged them to go back, but Lady DnfiGordon said that if they _ returned tho boat would ihe swamped. Sir Cosmo DuffGordon supported his wife's protest. Not going to help tho drowning was due to Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon's protest. When tho Carpathia was sighted, Sir Cosmo DuffGordon promised to. reward them, and afterwards gave, the crew five pounds each. Counsel suggested that the boat was intended for forty, but Hondricksen disagreed with the suggestion.
FUNERAL OF THE BANDMASTER, (Rec. May 20, 0.10 a.m.) London, May 19. There wore thirty thousand mourners
iat the funeral of the late Mr. Hartley, the bandmaster of the ill-fated Titanic.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1444, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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341TITANIC INQUIRY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1444, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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