THE LOSS OF THE TASMANIA.
THE CHARGES OF PILFERING.
A CONTRADICTION.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
Sydney, August 25. In connection with the complaints of pilfering on the wreck of the Tasmania, Mr Betts, the second steward, has written to the Press contradicting it. In fairness to the stewards saved and the unfortunate ones who are not here to answer for themselves, he gives a positive denial to the statement. He says that he, with the majority of the stewards drowned, were in and about the saloon till the last, so that it was almost impossible for any one to be there who had no right. He adds that it would have been impossible to get a more honest set of stewards than the Tasmania's, and in proof of this he states that nine of them lost their lives, and nothing was found on the bodies of any of them that did not belong to them. As regards Mr Grant losing his watch and chain, he believes that the articles were stolen, but he contends that it was as likely they were stolen by a passenger as a sailor.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9815, 26 August 1897, Page 5
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