A TRAGIC VOYAGE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 3 September 1929, Page 5

A TRAGIC VOYAGE

QUARREL ABOARD YACHT DOCTOR ALLEGEDLY SHOOTS COMPANION. A STOWAWAY’S EVIDENCE[United Press Association—By CableCopyright.) [Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 3. 11.35 a.m.) London, Sept. 2. An extraordinary trans-Atlantic voyage has ended in tragedy. Dr. Caballero accompanied by a sailor named Calvo, set out irom New Y'ork on July 21 in a 12-ton yacht, bearing greetings from the women of Porto Rico to tho women of Spain. After a hazardous crossing the yacht arrived at Gibraltar and thence sailed to the Spanish coast. In the course of a quarrel, it is alleged. Calvo drew a knife and Dr. Caballero fired a revolver in self-defence. Calvo fell overboard and disappeared Caballero was arrested at Seville The only evidence was that jf a stowaway, Lopez, who says that Calvo was jealous of the laudations accorded Caballero.

CABALLERO S STATEMENT. Caballero stated: “When I saw Calvo disappear I had no regrets tor it meant that a perverse bandit un fit to live had gone for ever. Eventually he would have attacked Lopezz or myself. He was only interested in getting control of the sloop and the money aboard. He was con stoutly menacing our lives and I was obliged to sleep with a linger on my revolver trigger He tried to run the sloop ashore at the Azores, but 1 seized the wheel.”