TRAGEDY ENDS VOYAGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 758, 3 September 1929, Page 9

TRAGEDY ENDS VOYAGE

STOWAWAY SEES GRIM DRAMA DOCTOR SHOOTS SAILOR (Australian and. N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 11.35 a.m. LONDON, Monday. An extraordinary transatlantic voyage ended in tragedy. Dr. Caballero, accompanied by a sailor named Calvo, set out from New York on July 21 in a 12-ton yacht bearing greetings from the women of Porto Rico to the women of Spain. After a hazardous crossing, the yacht arrived at Gibraltar, and thence sailed to the Spanish coast. In the course of a quarrel it is alleged that Calvo drew a knife and Dr. Caballero fired a revolver in selfdefence. Calvo fell overboard and disappeared. Dr. Caballero was arrested at Seville.

The only evidence was that of a stowaway named Lopez, who says Calvo was jealous of adulation accorded to Dr. Caballero. Dr. Caballero stated: —“When I saw Calvo disappear I had no regrets, for it meant that a perverse bandit who was unfit to live had gone for ever. Eventually he would iiave attacked Lopez or myself. He was only interested in getting control of the sloop and the money aboard. He was constantly menacing our lives. I was obliged to sleep with a finger on my revolver trigger. He tried to run the sloop ashore at the Azores, but I seized the wheel.”