The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-15
CREW OF THE KNOWLTON
 EXAMINED BY INSPECTORS
CAPTAIN, MATE AND TWO MEA TELL ABOUT THE SAME
 STORY.

All Unite in Telling of Strange Steamer
 Which Approached Within Mile Af-
 ter the Collision and Then Headed
 Away-Schooner Kept Right on Her
 Sighted--Number of Survivors Re-
 duced to Eighteen by Death Last
 Night.
 New London, Feb. 14.-United States Steamboat Inspectors William E.. Withey and John Stewart to-day ex- amined the four members of the schoon- erer Harry Knowlton's crew who were on watch Monday night at the time the schooner collided with the steamer Larchmont, of the Joy line, off Watch Hill. The four members of the crew examined were Captain Frank T.. Haley, of Everett, Mass; Mate Frank Goyant, of St. John, N, B., and Sea- men Carl Victor Johnson, of Christi ania, Norway, and Julius Boryersen, of Sweden. Their testimony did not dif- fer in any essential details, and they all united in telling of a strange steam CT which approached within mile after the collision and then headed the other way and passed up the sound.
 The hearing was called for Il o'clock this morning, but the men were unable to get to Westerly, R. l., from the Quonochontaug Hfe-saving station un- til mid-afternoon and nearly two hours were required to get them to this city by trolley. The hearing lasted from 5:15 until o'clock. The witnesses were questioned by Inspector Withey in the main, although Inspector Stewart ask ed several questions.
 The investigation developed little new in connection with the wreck, Cap tain Haley a1aving told the most of his story before. The inspectors went into much detail in order to establish all of the facts in the case, and an enormous amount of testimony was submitted.
 Captain Haley stated that the vessel went out through the Race, going ten or eleven miles an hour, about 9 o'clock. The ebb tide was at its strength and was making two and one-half knots. The coVrse of the schooner was chang ed from east to east by south, and the schooner held to this course about half an hour. In that time she probably five or six miles, assuming that his call culations as to her speed and to the flow of the tide were correct and after that the schooner was headed east about fifteen minutes and then headed east by north, which course she kept until the collision
 It was a beautiful night and vessel lights were visible distance of mile or two. After passing through the Race Captain Haley went below and left the deck in charge of Mate Govant with two sailors. He was sitting in his cabin and heard the mate ask the look out how the lights were. This struck him as peculiar and he went on deck and inquired what the answer was. He piled that the lights were all right, and then his attention was called to the approaching steamer. Tn support of the statement about the lights, Captain Haley said that he knew that the green one, at least was burning at the time of the collision, because it burned until some time Wednesday,. When he saw the light of the steamer it was red and not more than 100 yards away. It was point or point and one-ha1f on the starboard bow The green light was invisible, but the white lights of the steamer could be made out. He took a second look and saw that it was a steamer, He then ordered the man at the wheel to keep her on her course as she was, and received reply that she was on her course. Captain Haley be- lieved that the course of the schooner was not changed from that time till the time of the collision.
 Finally Captain Haley said he saw the nose of the steamer cross the bow of his vessel. At the same time he heard a whistle signal from the steamer and then the crash came. As soon as the vessels drtfted apart he waved a