A STRANGE STORY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1500, 24 July 1912, Page 5

A STRANGE STORY.

CAPTAIN SMITH OF THE TITANIC.

SEEN IN BALTIMORE,

By Tclezranh—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. July 23, 9.30 p.m.) New York, July 22. Captain Peter Pryal, a veteran Montreal shipmaster, and a life-long friend of Captain Smith of tho Titanic, swears that ho saw Captain Smith recently in Baltimore. Captain Smith, he declares, tried to evade him by taking a train to Washington. It is alleged that a nephew of Captain Smith, resident in Baltimore, disappeared the d'ay <ifter his uncle's alleged reappearance. When the Titanic sank on the morning of April 15 Captain Smith was seen standing on the bridge until it was almost on a level with the water. Ho then took a child in his arms and jumped into tho water, placing it on board of a half-empty collapsible boat. Afterwards, according to the statement of some of tho witnesses, ho swam up to another boat and made an inquiry as to what had become of Mr. Murdoch, the chief officer. Somo one replied (incorrectly) that Mr. Murdoch had shot himself, and Captain Smith then released his Hold of tho boat and sank. - He had previously been invited to get into the boat and had refused. Tho survivors were picked un at daybreak by the Carpathia. No other'vessel is known to have picked up any survivors, and all tho boats have since been accounted for, one that was missin~ having been later on sighted and picked up with tln;ee dead bodies on board.