THE TITANIC’S CAPTAIN
DID HE ESCAPE?
LIFE-LONG FRIEND SAYS HE IS ALIVE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received July 23, ‘J.3O p.m.) NEW YORK, July 23. Captain Peter Pryal, a veteran master mariner, of Montreal, and a lifelong friend of Captain E. J. Smith, commander of the litanic, makes an astonishing declaration. He says ho is prepared to swear that he saw Captain Smith in Baltimore. Captain Smith tried to evade him by taking train for Washington. Captain Smith had a nephew resident in Baltimore, and it is stated that tho nephew disappeared the day after his uncle’s alleged re-appearance. The many witnesses who gave evidence at the Titanic inquiriee, both in Amenta and England, seem to have been agreed that Captain Smith wont down with his shin The last time he was seen, according to one account, was when he swam to a boat with a little child, gave It into the care of the occupants, and returned to the shin The stories vary, however., except in the particular that tho captain died with the Titanic.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8181, 24 July 1912, Page 7
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