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TITANIC HELMSMAN GAOLED. ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE. United Pres 3 Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 29. The navigating officer, Robert Hitchens, w'ho was the actual helmsman on the Titanic when an iceberg sank her in 1912, has been 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’ reason had been dethroned as the result of his ordeal on the Titanic and indulgence in drink.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19118, 1 December 1933, Page 5
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