TITANIC HELMSMAN.
Five Years for Attempted Murder. REASON. UNHINGED BY WRECK. ("Times" Cables.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 29. A navigating officer, Robert Hitchens, who was the actual helmsman on the Titanic when an iceberg sank her in 1912, was sentenced to five years at [Winchester Assizes for attempted murder of Frederick Henley, whom he shot as the sequel to a quarrel about the sale of a motor boat. The defence- submitted that Hitchens' reason had been dethroned as the result of his ordeal in the Titanic and indulgence in drink.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 283, 30 November 1933, Page 7
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