HELMSMAN OF THE TITANIC
SENTENCED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrighl LONDON, November 29. (Received November 30, at 11.00 a.m.) Navigating Officer. Robert Hitchens, who was the actual helmsman of tho Titanic when an iceberg sank her til 1912, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment at Winchester for the attempted murder of I* rede rick Henley, whom he shot as a sequel to a quarrel about the sale of a. motor boat. Ihe defence submitted that H itchens s reason was affected as the result of tho Titanic ordeal and indulgence in drink, —London ‘ Times ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 8
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