SECRECY SEVERELY COMMENTED ON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 20 April 1912, Page 5

SECRECY SEVERELY COMMENTED ON

' REMEMBER OUR CHILD," A BRIDE—A WIDOW. THE FATE OF MR W. T. STEAD. (Rec. April 20, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 19. Extreme secrecy continues, and the withholding of the details is severely commented upon. The Carpat'hia refused to take the "cruisers' wireless messages or to supply information. Commenting on the Titanic's wireless knowledge of the proximity of ice, the "New York Times" says that she did not avoid the region, but steamed at a high speed. This was not merely imprudent or reckless, but criminal.

Mistress Edgar J. Meyer, of New York, daughter of ]\?r Andrew Says, a prominent New Yorker lost her husband. She pleaded with her husband to allow her to remain with him, but he threw her into a lifeboat, reminding her of their nine-year-old child at home.

Mistress Marvin, who was on her honeymoon, was prostrated when she learned ashore that her husband was drowned. As she was placed in the lifeboat, the husband exclaimed : "It's all right, little girl. Yon go. I will stay." When the boat shoved off he threw her a kiss. That was the last she saw of him. Mr W. T. Stead was last seen on deck near the smc-keroom. Another account =tates tha* he jumped overboard after the boats left.