FIVE YEARS’ GAOL.
Man Who Was Helmsman on Titanic. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received November 30, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, November 29. Navigating Officer Robert Hitchens, the actual helmsman on the Titanic when an iceberg sank her in 1912, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment at Winchester for the attempted murder of Frederick Henley, whom he shot as a sequel to a quarrel about the sale of a motor-boat. The defence submitted that Hitchens’s reason had been dethroned as a result of the Titanic ordeal and indulgence in drink. —“ Times ” cable.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 932, 30 November 1933, Page 1
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