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yjmWXS -?T r THE DAY BOOK m '500SO. PEORIA ST 398 Vol. 1, No. 176 Chicago, Friday, April 19, 1912 TEL. MONROE 353 e Cent re6 one TITANIC'S OWNER, SAVED WITH WOMEfi, "DOESN'T KNOW" AT INVESTIGATION WHAT BRUCE ISMAY DID NOT SEE AS HE LEFT TITANIC WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN j Bruce Ismay, on the stand before senate investigation com- mittee; "I saw no passengers when I entered the lifeboats." "I did not see what happened, the lifeboats." i "I did not look to see whether the Titanic broke in twoafter j I left her." ' ' j "I did not look to see if there was a panic." "After I left the bridge I did not see the captain." I ''I saw-nothing of any explosion." ' "I saw no struggle, no confusion." "I did not recognize any passengers on the Titanic, as 'she sank." "T caxr nn wnmm waitincr a? T pnfprrr? thp 1iffhraf " .', "While women survivors slept in passage ways, Bruce Ismay kept a stateroom for him?elf. All passengers on the Carpathia were asked to sign a statement agree ing not io talk to reporters about the details of the Titanics'lend. The Carpathia was a horror ship." Mrs. Luciei P. Smith, widowed by disaster. New York, April 19. Two grimly different stories "of the loss of the Titanic and 1,595 of the human beings aboard her were told the senate committee investigating the disaster today. Bruee Ismay, millionaire finan cier, 'told the committee what Jie did NOT see of the catastrophe, and what he did NOT do before and after he fled from the sink ing .ship with the women and children. Arthur H. Rostron, R. N. R.. shipmaster and a"ble. seaman, told the committee whatJieDID do to aid the wounded vessel and those left her for the frail security of the life boats. Ismay swore there were no women waiting to get into the lifeboat, which he boarded. He swore that he saw no pas sengers near the boat when lie left the vessel. , He swore he never loked back to see Captain Smith -going down ijLraji&l aA.