WRECK OF TITANIC

Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1933, Page 3

WRECK OF TITANIC

ECHO HEARD IN PROBATE COURT

AN ALLEGED VICTIM

LONDON, March 17

There was an echo cf the Titanic disaster of 1912 in the Probate Court when Air LangtoirT’eftt&ad Jto believe .thz^ : %g>-mair'lrad gone" down' with the dinhf "because, liis miune was net. in the :passengcr list. ■ ■ : . ?

Cousins. dL Miss ..Matilda? Elizabeth Dillard, who. lived at,'.'Weston.-WPf' l '- Mare, Somersetshire,. appjiedtlfor . letters' of administration cf her estate, which ' amounted to £3100.', ’ The' cousins would not be entitled to any of the money unless George Gillard and hi i wife and . two children were all dead. Miss'Gillard'died in February, 1931. . .

“The suggestion is,” the judge pointed out, “that- Mr George Gillard was drowned in the Titanic,• but there is no evidence that he was even on the pasenger list.” Counsel for appellants: He may have been on board under another name.

Judge: I do not feel inclined to jump to the conclusion that this man is dead merely because he . cannot be found bv these two cousins.

Counsel: If your lordship feels difficulty about the distribution of the estate, the letters of administration might be : granted 0 n condition that there should be, no distribution without leave of the Chancery Court.

Air Justice Langton : Very well