The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1912, Page 2

sau uv TITANIC OFFICER OF 21 KNOTS NING WUKBLD, BALCUBWVAL, AX win oy ww bs ADM! TS SPEED slaking liner. He clambored aboard « capsized Ufeboat and was, eventually | pathia operator, relieve you? A. Wed- . Newsday afternoon. Q. You pt till dawn on Wednes- day? A. ¥ ‘was on the boat deck when the officers and crew were clearing the lifeboats | grucK 70 HIS ior lowering. He knew that ice was thick In the course of the vessel and THREE DAYS. “warned First Officer Murdock, who took command of the veesel at 11 o'clock,| Q. you're positive you were in charge Juat forty-five minutes before the collision. Sunday, Sunday night, Monday and wEightoller explained that the first lifeboats were sent off partially filled | Monday night, Tuesday gnd Tuesday \ Decamse there were not enough passengers around to fill them and it was|"i#M? Yes I had about three hours they should be launched quickly. He dectared that the order |"Qyou nur’ sn reine afore Gawn. “women and children first” was enforced as long as women and children | relieved you Wednesday? A. No, pa in He did not see Ismay leave the ship. The Titanic had been| Q. What time did he relieve you? A. at from twenty-one to twenty-two knots an hour all day Sunday, |1te Wednesday afternoon. {Phe investigators transferred their, tain's message to the Titanic.’ Peithg neditoenllt ay t Lappe pe ‘The captain,” replied the witness sent, 1 lay ag yf by Waldorf-Astoria to the cant ® + dow foom. Mr. message to the effect that they commodious Myrtle Room. The have thelr tifeboata ready. Welds, mae et the Inetrumem when 1 remarkable lay 5 miortes | tend | hha use Yedty ana wenn steaming to |'"2,00, ‘tracted a considerabis num- | the Titanic, We neceived no answer.” ing yt gh eae Shag es a ee tartrom the L.atel to the in-] “Did you receive any communication |verurent. Ample seating arrange: | from either the Marcon! coast station | O'"Were you at the instrument when @ Tepetition of the un-| or any other station from any officer of & Message from the Chester cerowaing of the previous | th Rrne Blur Liner” asked Senator losivedr A. Yeu. I took Mt bea» SmI q " m Q. You didn’t have authority to desig. ‘Wo were in communication with nate Mr. Bi ? jsome boat all the time,” aaid the wit-|raveun were venience, Ae No his neos. “We had communication with the Baltio, ome were oficial messages, | 2. 0at was ean conten? dauginer, Mra. Lucien P. Smith. | but what they contained I can't gocall.” Whe: ha ‘widowed on her return from her! Q. Were they from the Baltic of trane- iar gree, ey ‘Sebtal trip by the sinking of the Titanic. | mitted through the Baltle from @ coast lucid? A, He seemed to be all WANTS Hie DAUGHTER TO TRLL| “ton? A. T can't recall. Fight. "He cent « moasage to the Ches- Post FOR Hal i Hifta i ' i ie ieuAY, QUESTIONED ABOUT KEDPING tor, une sent another, but I can's recol- ; IT Quigr. Q. Did you receive any message in-| CAV® POE PieRY pe TOR ia'the investigation, it te known that he | Micating a di ition that i intends ¢o insist that his daughtér shall | the true atate of things be kept con-| @ Tf Ne sent a message such as 1 ‘what she knows about the events of | dential? A. At 10.80 o'clock A. M, on| "Ave indicated about’ the Titante being terrible Snuday night in the ice field | Monday following the loss I commu.| towed to Halifax you would have Metwhat subsequently occurred | Mcated the fact to the Baltic. known it would you not? A. Yes. He Carpathla, dirs, Smith told) _ Y- How far off was the Baltic then?| @Xn't send such a message. on Thursday night that J.| A. 1 couldn't aay. Q. How long was Bride at the instru- ¥ had enjoye’ a stateroom! & Can you recall what said in| ™ent? A, He took a watch occasion- thia to himeelf with a j the me at 20.80 Monday morning! #!l¥. » “Please don't disturb,” | t@ the A. Tt waid that we had| @ Did you stand watch alone all the women, recently widowed, | Yeen to the ecene of the wreck, had| time except this short time when you the floor of the sajoon outside. | P!cked up as many passengers as wel slept from Monday evening until your Gov. J. H. Griggs of | Could find and were returning to New) arrival in New York? A. Yes. Fetweg\\représenting the Marcon! W York. i coneeny, ‘Was also present. J. Car-| @: Did you say anything in the mea-| Wireless on the Carpathia? A. Yes, @ attorney for the White! fe about Halifax? A. T believe I did,| @ Did any one talk to you on the jy line, sat by tho side of Mr. Jamay |r the captain was bound ¢or Halifax| boat or in New York with reference to the inquiry opened, fret and then changed his mind. Messages rocelved? A, I had h ‘before Senator Smith opened the! Q. How do you know he changed his| there was a rumor that a mei an invalld’s chair was whecled mind about Hadifax? A. I asked him| been went saying that the Titanic was Feom by Gotel attendants, In @bout noon and he sald he had changed| being towed into Halifax, Dale youth with crutches by his course, Q. Who told you this? A. I ddn't the! @. Did ‘you at any time on Monday| KNOW. I didn’t take notice of the man man! send @ mespage saying that all the pas-| WhO asked me, It was not Mr, Ismay. rushed | sengers were saved and that the Titanic] _@ How soon after you reached the feet in escaping from the ship| was being towed into Halifax? A,| 10Ck Were you anked about it? A. Soon @ank. Bride was the man who ir, fter I reached the dock I was asked if fila) moments of agony aboard Q. bia any message reach you on|! sent the message ashore saying the Wo'einking Titanic had shot and killed Monday night or Tuesday from any| Titanic was being towed into Halifax, @iilor who had sluak behind operator source indicating a rumor of that kind?|! Sad I had not. Perhaps the man in the wireless. ‘coop’ with a A. Ne, air, who asked me was a reporter. fa bis hand, intent on killing NO REGULAR HOURS Fi RE- the precious lite presorver {CENT Ba el TITANIC Less OPERATOR® ji i as ane nS Q. You did not send from the Car-| TM Witness said the wireless on the and both of hie band- PAathla any report that the passengers | CATPAthia Was of the oll fashioned type, "feet [poe Wearing a allpper and Of ¢reW Were aaved, and that. the| He tought he could communicate about SRSAGHEAE chiz'by bh gear seek #13010, badly Geraged, was teins tones {wo hundred and fifty miles with tt. propped on another chalr, \to Halifax? A, No, sir. fe could meet all the regudations with Youne fan appeured to be over-| % Did any one ask you to send wuch| 6 APPATAtus he had, Cottam said he thd shifted vnenetiy in "hie! ® meesaee? A. No, ar had been an operator for three years 4 Q. Did you pick up on your Instrument | “hd that his waxes were four pounds any #uch statement from any other| tn shillings a month with board, gsen- BETLY SAYS HE 18 NOT AJ source? No, ein * OUNer) ator Stntth asked whether regular office HERO. Q, You sant out no. communication) Ours Were prescribed for wireless oper- don't know what I'll be asked to! that was Indofintte enough to have been |Ators. Cottam gald thers was no euch ta” he eaid, “but I surely will tell all 1% Consirued? A. I am positive J did|resulation and added that he was re- eam t0 help your Senators. But don't Pot sponsible for whatever might happen if gf ‘3 ae ft rH I jit with his pillow when photosra- | inelsted on taking snaps at short setting into bed? A. Yes; \ing for @ reply from tie Parisian, Q. And if you bad received that Marconi came in quietiy be- the session opened und took his ‘Dy the aide of P. A. 8, Franklin, 414 you give any information that Wieepresident of the International] Would warrant i¢7 posett sages? A. Fos; that is so. Q. Bo you caught the Titanio’s D8 corsmuntoation while you were pre- {WHE Beligman, were also present, je operator on the Carpathia, A. No| paring to go to bed? A, Yee; Sve ‘Mo," replied the witness. jarine Co . Mra, Bons Bovine Company. Mrs. Bene} «2-07 sy your knowiedse from any’| Guggenheim and her brother, De- ray," said Senae . No, 1361 Beach - Monday—all of Monday and Tuesday all | off his head, He sald there was none. called, but I heard it and took It x.” ae. # Tisai =| ORAL rediwar, 4 to Lh Bk op Mimith, “the ba co that you did on day? A. You, I wot two or three hours) Q, What was the exact message from |4own. I took it to the captain, but it w @ Carpathia up to the time of the last #leep on Wednesday morning before | the Titanic? A, "CQ D—Come at once, |Wasn't oficial.” Jecelved from the Titanic, To dawn, old man." Bride sald he did not answer the Cail- | SUNDAY WORLD WANTS | Meeesase you replied by direction) @. You were exhausted? A. Yes Q, What did the “Old Man" mean? A, |fornia’s fret call Deeause he wes mak- @eptain, Please state the cap- did Mr. Bride, the Care’ Ob, I gues & was Just complimentary, @ Whdn Ne Q. Ang had the responsibility for the| bey Interrupted Operator Phillips just as he ‘any hero business about ine—tils) Q It would have been false, would tt|ho were away from the key. yee bs was hearing from the Olympic. Then 12 323 Gd bealle~"l om toi in tha hare | BO? A. Yes, Q. When you caught the Titanic mes-|, Were, you on duty,” Senator Smith |rapt, smith worked out the distance ’ 21m » Bey: | _ “Ef the White mar line sent the | sage, tt was accidentally? A, Yes, [Seed “Whon @ wireless regarding the A between the Carpathia and T! looked as if be would like to nid} folowing telegram dated Monday, | Q. You had the telephone receiver on|'® conditions was received from the your ear when you were disroting and | “ino, ut I knew th 1 wae wait-|. > mn ere was euch a sir. . tan after Z Bs etal code signal of the Leyland line ship WIRELE@s OPERATOR FIRST |. @ Were you on duty Monday alt day? far telegraphed the [eit foe | WITNESS OF THE DAY. Give hour of your duty. A. 1 don't re ae, Smith wanted to know i¢| “What did that message Sone} Aged 42 veare, ‘e T. Cottan, the wireless ope T hover way off duty all Mon- | there was anything in the wireless {MOF Smith resumed, Relatives and friends, invited to, attend a om the Carpathia, was the drat wi | boara to warn or algnal that a message |_ “The Callfornia hed catied me with| the funeral on Bunday. 2191 tnat.. at . Q. So you were at the instrument a!!! was coming when the receivers wore |4% 16 report—that 1s it was the Baltto| ¥.M, | Interment in Woodlawn C HERALD SQUARE, At 11.65 o'clock another message came {2 and 8) minutes thereafter, or at abou: | ’ from the Titanic. Cottam said this |5 o'clock on Suntiay afternoon, he did \ ‘ read: rempond and got the {ce report. “Come at, omce—the water is Q. Had you any other wireless in- ? making as far as the boller room.” § (formation about bergs? A. No, sir. “I repeated the message to Capt. Ros-| Q. This information from the | trom,” Cottam aald, “and the Carpathii’| fornia was your first information about wheeled and went at a fifteen-knot galt |icobergs? A. Yes. toward the Titanic. Rosttom ordered|WHEN WORD ABOUT BERGS mune oprazon | saneesarrecvecs | MEN ARE NABBED, EARLY NEXT WEEK OF THE TITANIC Feport to me would be the same as TAKES THE STAND.}| *®, te Baltic, so confirmed the re- ‘After saying he hed tried to get into| Word “M.D.” The message statea tne | Mystery of Long Series of|Total. of Entire Brooklyi further Gon with the Giymple pen Oalifornia had passed very close to failed, Cottam was excused. Then Bride| three large icebergs and reported Brooklyn Burglaries Is Series Will Guide Early was lifted to the table and held his| thelr latitude and longitude, ; : ‘ right hand up to be sworn. The youth| Bride said that he communicated the}; Solved by Detectives. Game Subject. took the oath with a clear enunciation, | meesage to the officer of the watch who There was @ cockney blur in hia \"e aba pee: speech. }. you receive any other com-| pjunder worth $35,000, consisting mains] Early next week asetjall fans will Bride sata that his home was in Muntation regarding tccbergs from any |1y of Jewelry, was displayed in Brooklyn| know at what hour xamea’ at the Polo London. Rios nea ssn a micelena oe [he sreke llecat A. No, Police Headquartets to-day while scorea |Groumls wili start the prevent serson. erator since last July, crossing to| Q. N ps receive a message ss ay The patrony now attending games are America three times and going to Bra-| from the Amerika? A, No, to | Of DatsOHS ‘Bled ‘past deatitying prot i MY| erty ‘ voting on the question, but until the ail once. He learned the business at a| knowledge. pact monty, fom thelr homes In the | voi 'ts complete the management of the training college tn London, where he| @. The only tcebere message you re-| tie arrent of three men by Detectives; Hants will not give out the rerult spent six months. An second operator | ceived was from the California? Y. Yes, Lataiden c in| Agitation regarding the time to start on the Titanic he got $20 a month and| Q. Who was on duty at the wireless Hepa oneeee ede a ea ea games began long before the season board, Hla chief was Phillips, who| station from 6 o'clock Sunday evening] No, 39) Atlantic avenue. last night Opened. Just now games are started at was about twenty-four years old, As| until the collision? A. was on duty al| N°. . ware | c] " 3.80 o'clock; but when the days grow Assistant operator he kept @ watch| holt hour while Phillips got his dinner, | pared UP the mystery of @ long series tanger and warmer the hour 4. Wall “lof daylight burglaries. * ters is sup. | loot of fifty breaks was hidden, was un- | wants the games to start at 4, as here- * Bride told of the tent of the wireless| door between the apparatus room and| suspected until erday afternoon, tofore, as that gives the brokers and apparatus of the Titanic made during| the bedroom. he ective convicts, | bankers ample time to reach the Polo the trial trips of the new steamahip.| Bride did not know whether it was the| award Ielan Gay Geen et Maivite, (Grounds after the market closes, ‘The The apparatus was thoroughly up to| collision or not that had awakened him,| award Del oes ae sore | ee the crowd that want to| Gate and was the last word of the) “I felt a shock,” he said, “but did| Ts aetwctiver atmestOd these ce tor | get home before dinner 1s cold, ts strong | Marcon! people. It would carry trom| not know anything serious had hap-| detectives arrested these two men for @ 3 or a 3.80 game throughout the | Glasgow to Port Said. ned. I atill remained |and Shutte, who was armed with two| season. The size of this faction is large, | bh rautes es in bed: About| heavy calibre loaded revolvers. Dolan |and there ia considerable doubt whether | 1 light d Q. Did you uso the wireless frequently Afteen minutes later F got up and| ang ‘Melville ted $1500 in Jewelry in {the Wall street crowd will be ‘able to| ANd occasional light dressings after leaving Southampton? A. Yes, | talked to Phillips. Ho sald that he was! their mots, : control the vote. ‘of Cuticura Ointment: will pre- WAY. Seam MetOne BAA SEINE OF PR. | sying to wet of. Romie messages (ol A duick search’ of .the. store John T. Brush, owner of the Giants, is t it when all else fails: * From Southampton to Cape Race We| Cape Race. Phillips was Just going to Hier sf un} acutral, having several times expressed | VENt I en + transmitted 250 telegrams. That was UP| nea—this was about 12 o'clock—when| eres eee Of Jewelry and bricea lino desire that the decision be left to| Cuticure Soap and Ointment sold Urreughows the to the time of the collision, uy orclock—when | prac valued at $7" 0, the fans attending the opening game. | gorid. Liberal sample of each mailed Free, oith Q. Was the weather favorable? A,| the capiain came in and said that there! Capt, Coughlin of the Brooklyn De-| Accordingly, the voting aystem wan de- | ™&P. Dook, Address “Cnticare.* Dept $R, Bowen, a had been an accident and told Phillips! tective Bureau, in whose office the nd upon this. wholly, according J . x to send out a aslgnal. \‘Shall I send a! identification of stolen gdods took to the Glants’ management, the decision | Q. Did you see Mr. Ismay on the Ti- ene | olen xdods took place | to! tanic after leaving Southeripion oF wend Wve gg og The order, iso tsa cane thee Primners Will;be made wsages from him? A, We had too as placed on exhibition to see if any o - many messages to remember them all. | @- ‘Then the distress call was sent out?| those whose homes had been robbed | BIG GUNS KILL 2,000 A. Yea, could identify them. Several did, par DID NOT SEE ISMAY AFTER/Orsrness CALL THAT THE! {ictlstly. one woman who male Dolan! WOMEN AND CHILDREN COLLISION. TITANIC SENT. aiatien Jewelcane” *t ™* ' Teach) — DURING CHINESE REVOLT, Q. Did he come to the wireless office during the time after the collision? A. Not to my knowledge. Q. Did he send any word to you be- whet was ‘The three prisoners were arraigned ot | Pi Pag ea Be % |vefore Magistraie McGuire in the Gates| LONDON, April 20.~The Central News Avenue Court to-day. Dotan, who said | carrespandent at’ Cylcutta..cables. thas | his right name was Ruddy, and Mel-| Chinese troops :killed: 2,000 women and i a time of the col- ie, were charged with carrying con-| cn: Sy mowing. thers . ote’: wite| tveen Goa shemeten Sty Ee to do so, 3 could mot hear what cealed weapons and. burelary. in two children. mowing | them down wie Maton? A, No. er hi t They waived i Maxim guns in qu is an up es i Genator Smith wanted to know if] weever Be got |counts, y waived examination and Mr. Marconl, who sat near his wireleas| Were held. ‘Two well dressed women, | Hasse Iamay sent of received any messages]... taal ~ |who refused to give their names, were While Operator Phillips was at the key, {operators then explained the origin of ” walting the result the ralgnment, whether Iamay tind boen to the wireless | "0.0 9D. After Melville entered ‘nis plea, one of |way, Fobbed April 12 of Jewelry. valugd cabin after the collision, ‘The witness |.) Mis, Phillips told me within four|inem threw up her hands and dropped | at $1,000; recovered $40, could not recall such a ctrumstane, | nutes,” sald the witness, “to go to the! fainting to the floor, She was revived] Mra, .M, I/Hommidlieu, No. 90 ‘New Than aera ech & cltumatane. {captain and report that he had heard |outeide. York avenue, robbed April 1% of $50) jon Senator Smen wanted to from the Frankfort, I found the cap-| The jewelry store owner, Shutte, was|Jowelry; recovered $300, Mf the captain of the Tianlo had re! aj, charged with recelving stolen good: henson, No, 80 Eastern Haves SRO, Se oie Snes Bek ese on the boat deck, not on the| chara K goods and| Thomas Step! bridge, and tok parc, held without ball for examination. Parkway, robbed April 12 of $0) fowelry:| ik wEiayI Ai CONG ig aT coding the disaster reganting the speed] asked mo to get the Ieiltide nnd wage| The following perwone recovered most | recovered ail. y at “len ee eh a of thn ship or iis course, Bride was| ttude of the Frankfort. | told. Me, ot thelr stolen property Severin D. Sprang; No. 2? Garhi i tia weak rf ‘tiara od clade sure that no such mes alter P. Nichols, yr 2 es were re-| phi 7 No, 261 Garfeld| place, robbed April celved on Sunday. No other omcer | iilites to get it. place, robbed April 16 of $500; recovered | ered $50. f Q@. What was the next message?) $300 worth of Jewelry. District-Attorney Arthur H. Molwell, 8, the lem. Gy a he Noa aut, |A; The Carpathia’s reply to our CQ D.| William P, Gondle, No, 291 Stuyvesant |No, 906 Decatur street, robbed of 800 yes. Fares Sn 8 toaeeaa toe 4 She told us she had reversed her course| avenue, robbed April 17 of $700; recov-| tenday morning; recovered $400, m1 en say to him that such a m and was steaming full speed for the|ered $00. Gustave Loesch, No. 14% Pacific street, | sage had been received, Mtanie, James I, MoGill, No. 80 Eastern Park-! robbed Aprit 15 of $600; recovered $500, “Communication was established Bride sald he took the message to the Baitio on Sunday afternoon,” the |capt, smith in the wheel house Capt witness then continued, “and compit- 7 > 1 Tents were passed between the cap. |emth came to the wirelese coop and of Wat; recov} vith 31,583 WORLD ADS: LAST WEEE nlc, ‘Then there were no messages,” Bride continued. “I relfeved Mr, Phillips and he went outside.” Message recelved that afternoon, 1 re-|@. Dia you receive any other message ceived from a ahip whose code name ce Me aeenomientemeen: Meneene wae W. L, U.-d think tt was the Call |¢ Q 1p cali trom the Frankfort? A. No, fornia~a mossage saying that there Was |oxcept the Frankfort told ua to “Stand ico ahead. which meant, “Walt, I'm coming Mr. Sammis, engineer of the American Marcon} Company, told the committee the “U W L" referred to was the om- MORE THAN THE HERALD * Owing to the death of An_Impressive Story of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus '| World Advertising Results this store will be _ closed to-day, Saturday Advertise in To-Morrow’s SUNDAY WORLD ‘ing Up an account at the table. Between WORK MONDAY WONDERS