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Show CAPTAIN BERRY IS OJJRIAL Pleads Not Guilty to Charge of Negligence in Collision With Monroe. Philadelphia, Pa., Ffeh 11. The tri-' y i of Osmyn Berry, captain ot the Merchants and Miners Steamship Nan-1 tticket, charged with negligence in . the collision with ihe Old Dominion' liner Monroe on .lanuan 30 begun to-! da before the United State local In 1 Bpej tors of steam vessel-; Forty-one persons lost their llvs in the collision, which occurred off the coast of Virginia. The trial is being : held before Redford A. Sargent, in-1 spedor of hulls, and David II Howard. How-ard. Inspector of boilers for the Philadelphia Phila-delphia district. Captain Berry whs represented by John K. Lewis, a Philadelphia admiralty admir-alty lawyer, Albert bee Thurroan, solicitor of the department of turn raen e Washington, was also present. In opening the ase, the local board of jnspe tor announced that 'every phase" of the collision would be in YCBtigated, not only to ostabhsii re ponaibillty bul also with the view of obtaining the enactment of con-pr con-pr Bicnal legislation to guard against n recurrence of a similar accident flie construction of the ves.ioi6. con dncl of crews and passengers, safety appliances and the rules of the sea are among the things that will be in quired into. Captain Berry was called and ho pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. Among the charges are that he did not reduce speed dur-iug dur-iug the fog and did not take timely action to avoid the collision that he did not ascertain whether the wire less operator of the Nantucket was on duty and that he was careless in not giving orders to the wireless op erator to ascertain the proximity of other vessels The charges stated that he did not shut down his engine until one minute before the collision |
