Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-05-01
Admits That He and Gap tain Had Been Warned of
 Icebergs On Trip.
 FINALLY, R PLEASED
Telegram Received From .smay Can. not Be FOnnd-Firs i4ady
 Witness Called.

Washington, April 30.-After apply ing to himself thick coat of white
 wash, MT. J. Bruce Ismay was today
 released from the custody of the
 United States Senate and departed from Washington.
 MT. lsmay's testimony, which he completed this afternoon, scattered
 the blame for the Titanic disaster up-
 on half a dozen of his assistants and
 employees.
 He admitted that the public was not informed of the sinking of the Ti- tanic until Monday night, but he swore he sent out the news himself at s o'clock that morning. That put the blame on the Marconi company. He admitted that he received the warning of ice on Sunday. But he said the captain also got it. The captain alone was responsible for not needing it.
 Asked how he happened to leave the ship, he said:
 "It was the last boat to leave, I felt the ship was sinking and I got in- to the boat
 When the last question was asked he smilingly shook hands with the chairman and started for his train. He had not explained why, as the chief owner of the Liner, he left a ship on whose decks, as Colonel Oracle afterwards described 1t twas crowd of frantic women and men, swarming from below just ahead of the water that surged up to the boats," leaving them to fight the struggle of their lives and finally lost them in the sinking vessel
 A new witness, Edward J. Dunn, of Brooklyn, who was called in the morning, threw little light on that first dispatch of Ismay's which Vice President Franklin swore he did not get until two days later. Dunn, from a source he refused to reveal, got track of this telegram and said it was delivered Monday Senator Smith has been unable to find trace of it through secret service search of the Western Union records. The Vest ern Union, according to evidence, got it from the Marconi Company and delivered it to MT. Franklin. ex- pressed It's willingness that it be made public, inasmuch that Dunn stated that the word "reinsure'' was used in the message as he heard of 1t, the matter has become of the utmost im- portance and Senator Smith may so to New York himself tomorrow to find out about it.
 Dunn's reason for refusing to di- vulge the name of his informant was that the latters father is a Western Union operator and would lose his job if it was discovered that lie had been talking about the company's business. Nevertheless it Is proposed to discover the telegram and if it is discovered it will be necessary to lold MT. Ismay and MT. Franklin to their promises to come back and tes- ,ify again.
 The Ismay testimony occupied most of the morning and afternoon ses- sion. but it was largely repetition of his story told to the committee In New York.
 In the afternoon Colonel Oracle. In describing his experiences, related < an accident of George A. Widener. Major Butt, Clarence Moore and Mr. Ryarson. that was new.
 Mrs. B. H. Bishop, the first woman called to the inquiry, told now she and her husband left in the 1 first lifeboat. Mrs. Bishop was one of W he many brides on board the Titanic.
 The committee adjourned this af- ernoon until Friday. It is possible hat there will be no more sessions, although Senator Smith says he will every witness who has any ight to shed on the disaster.
 MT. and Mrs. George Merrick and hildren will leave in n few dhys ioj 2 a Warren to visit Mrs. Nerrie E. | VI n r1. 7. Y, Z,