Show i II I I 1 t WILFUL L I MURDER VERDICT This Appalling Crime Was Contrary to Inte International national Law Lav and Conventions of All Civilized Nations Nations Is Finding at ai Inquest Ov Over r Lusitania STEAMIER STEAMER STE STRUCK TRUCK BY ONLY OWE ONE TORPEDO Captain Turner T Tells ils Story of How Hoty Ship 1 Was Jas Destroyed Had Received ved Warning of Presence of Submarines b but f Saw No Io Signs of Them ThemA SAYS A YS A ALL L DID THEIR DUTY i j i AMERICANS ERIq NS QUIT t. t GERMANY f fI fG i i 1 G Geneva May I a. a 10 Anet A. 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I stood on the bridge o when she sank and the Lusitania went down under me She floated about eighteen minutes after the thc torpedo struck her My 1 watch stopped at 30 I was picked up tip from Crom amon among the wreckage ago and afterwards was as brought aboard a trawler Xo No warship was convoying con us I saw no fro warship and none was reported to me as having been seen At the time I was picked up I noticed bodies floating on the surface but saw Baw no living lI persons Eighteen l knots nots was not the normal speed of the was It Itt At t ordinary times answered Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain Turner s she he could make twenty twenty- five o knots but in war times her speed was reduced to twenty ono knots My reason for tor going eighteen knots was that hat I wanted santed to arrive at Liverpool bar bal without stopping and within two or three hours of oC high h waters Sailing Straight ht Course Was Yas there a lookout kept for submarines submarines sub sub- marines having regard to previous warnings s Yes we had double lookouts Were ere you OU going a zigzag course courso at atthe atthe atthe the moment the torpedoing took place No It was bright ht weather and land was clearly visible Was ras it possible for a n submarine to approach without being seen Oh Oh yes es quite possible By the foreman of oC the tho Jur Jury In the face Cace of If th th th-j warning at New York that time the Lusitania would be torpedoed oed did you OU make an any application to the admiralty for an I escort ort No o. o I left that to them It Is their business not mine I 1 had to carry cairy out rn mv my orders to go 0 and I would do dolt It a gain aln Captain Turner uttered th the tho last words of oC HIs th's rep reply with great grent cm- cm ph L Kv fly n the coroner I 1 am very glad s to hear you vou say sav so 80 so captain B By a man Inn Did you get a wireless wire wire- le less s to sto steer r your our vessel in a northern direction 1 No o. o replied Capt Captain ln Turner Captain Turner in answer to an another another another an- an other question said he lie had received etl no report from the lookout before tho the torpedo truck struck the thc After ph physicians had testified that the victims had met death prolonged pro pro- longed immersion imm and exhaustion the coroner summed ui un the case caso and the Jury Jur brought in ts verdict rc |