CAPTAIN ARRESTED.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER,
LOSS OF THE STEAMER IROQUOIS.
(Received April 17, 9 a.m.)
VANCOUVER, April 16
As a result of the inquest regarding the deaths of the victims by the loss of the small steamer Iroquois, which was wrecked near Victoria (8.C.) eighteen lives being lost, Captain Sears, of the Iroquois, who at the nautical enquiry admitted that he went home after landing the lifeboat, and did not wait, to search for bodies, has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter. The evidence at the inquest showed that the captain did not take proper precautions for the safety of the passengers.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10215, 18 April 1911, Page 5
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103CAPTAIN ARRESTED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10215, 18 April 1911, Page 5
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