EIGHT DROWNED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 1

EIGHT DROWNED.

Vessels Collide and One Sinks. British Official Wireless. (Received December 22, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, December 21. The steamers Gateshead and Miranda collided off Seaham Harbour this morning. The Gateshead sank and the captain and seven of the crew were drowned. Five were rescued and were taken on board the Miranda.

i Some of them cancelled their passage j when they learned that Wanderwell planned to engage in some kind of illegal “ racket,” not clearly defined, while travelling between Pacific ports. Several witnesses say that William James Guy was a man whom they saw through the ship’s porthole immediately I before the shooting. Guy denies the crime, although he ■ admits that he cherished a personal ; hatred for the dead man. Guy relies for his alibi on Edward Delarm, who says that Guy was in a house 30 miles away from the scene of the shooting when the crime was committed. Delarm, an air pilot, took part in a certain South American revolution in I 1930. \ Wanderwell was shot in the back in i his own cabin in the yacht. Those 1 aboard the ship were four seamen, two j students, a cameraman, two women i short-story 7 writers, Mrs Wanderwell j and Wanderwell’s two little daughters. Mrs Wanderwell told the police that a middle-aged stranger came aboard in ; the evening and accompanied her husi band to his cabin. I She said that Guy quarrelled with her husband several weeks ago in a Los Angeles hotel, when the men came to blows about money matters. The dead man, who was Polish-born, took the name of Wanderwell after having married a girl in Victoria (B C.) ten years ago. They had a motor caravan, in which they travelled about through the Western States and Canada, carrying passI engers and special packages. Duke’s Son Signs Up. Edward Eugene Montague, second son of the Duke of Manchester, who met Wanderwell a fortnight ago, had signed on ns a member of the crew. He announced his intend n of re organising the expedition and going on to the South Seas with the people already 7 committed to the writing and photographing project. Montague is well known in Edmonton and Vancouver. He is a musician, linguist and fly r er.