“TITANIC” ECHO
HELMSMAN BEFORE THE COURT. ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, November 29. Navigation Officer Robert Hitchens, actual helmsman on the Titanic when the iceberg sank her in 1912, was sentenced to five years’ at Winchester for the-attempted murder of Frederick Hen-; ley, whom he shot a s a sequel to a quarrel about the sale of a motorboat. The defence submitted that Hitchens’ reason was dethroned as the result of the Titanic ordeal and Ids’indulgence of drink. - ’’’ ’
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1933, Page 6
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