Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-25
Wireless Messages
Forged, Says Inventor
confined from, First Page,

I sell their story If they wanted 10, Mr.
Marconi told Senator Smith that the
senator was assuming that he had some
responsibility for the withholding Of
news.
with due Difference to the commit
tee. the assumption is false" said Mar
conf.
"Do you know that the President OF
the United States couldn't get a reply
from the carpathia?
II heard that and asked the a
pathia operator. He said he had not
received n such inquiry. The oper-
ator said the naval ship Chester asked
for the list of dead and was told they
had been forwarded to a land station.
Going back to the selling of news by
wireless operators Mr.. Marconi said
that operators only had permission to
"sell a story Senator Smith asked
him if the custom exercised by Binns
in the Republic, and the privilege given
to- Gotham in the Titanic disaster had,
in his Judgment, anything TO do with
the keeping back of news.
I'm my Judgment. No." said Mar
conf.
Reverting TO the messages to Gotham
Marconi said that they came from no.
body connected with his company.
When he had given permission to Cot
tam to talk he also included Bride, the
Titanic operator. He did not mean that
they were to sell the story TO the high
est bidder, but to give information to
newspapers wherever they pleased.
When the probe into the wreck of
the Titanic disaster was about to be-
gin before the Senate investigating
committee today members of the crew
of the wrecked vessel asked that they
be dismissed so they can return to
their homes in England. II is not
probable, however. that the committee
will grant this request. A decision VIII
be reached later today.
J. Bruce Ismay is especially anxious
to return to England, and as a result
he may be called earlier than the COM
mittee first arranged for. Steward
Crawford, the man who saw Mrs. Isldor
Straus step from the lifeboat to die
with her husband, is scheduled to &c
on the stand again today. Some Of
the Titanic's fireTnen are to be called.
One Of the passengers aboard the
Canadian Pacific steamship Mount
Temple, which, it has been asserted
positively, was about five miles dis
tant from the White Star liner Titanic
when she struck the iceberg of the
Grand Banks of New Foundland, has
consented to come to Washington and
tell the Senate investigating commit
tee what he saw from the deck of the
Mount Temple and what report he
made. if any, of the calamity that re-
suited in the loss of 1900 lives.
The prospective witness, whose story
is awaited with the keenest interest,
is DR.. F. C. Quitzrau. of Toronto,
Canada.
He was told that Bride got $500 from
a New York paper for his story, but he
didn't know how much Gotham got.
One of the editors of that paper and
the of the Marconi company
told him..
Ibid any Of your officers get any Of
this money!
mo, SIR
Senator Smith tried TO get Marconi
20 admit that the wireless operators
had done something improper in the
selling of the stories, but he refused
to be SO put on record. He then tried
to get him to admit that it was against
the British law for the Carpathia wire
less operator to talk to the newspapers,
but Marconi made it clear that the
news of the Titanic disaster was not In
that class.