The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-30
IsMAY WILL TELL
PART he PLAYED

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! the committee. Through each days
f. session MIR. Ismay has sat, apparently
unmoved by the recitais given In hts
| presence.
His Day in Court.
Tomorrow Will bc his day in count
His desire to get back home and faco
| his own counlrymeu has bN.n .s-
| spected by the committee. His OK
| animation will probably consume the
| entire day. perhaps part Of another
] 1T may be stated on behalf of Senator
Smith. that no question that seems
! pertinent will be left unasked. The
Widener series of inquiries prepared
! by i. A. Il. Widener. father of one
/ OF the distinguished victims, and a
/ director in the White Star line. Will be
/ included.
Mr.. istnay has expressed willing
ness to answer everything without
J evasion. He knows that the future OF
I his great business In this country de-
ponds largely on the accounting he
| can make tomorrow.
VIII he Embarrassed.
But there are many things that are
sure to embarrass him during the
{ day. and the ordeal he will face. while
II cannot lead to any criminal prose-
most severe he has ever encountered
Today William Marconi and j. NJ.
Sammia, chief engineer of the Ameri-
can Marcont Company attempted to
explain which the wireless operators
on the Carpathia We're silenced in
order that they might give an ex-
elusive story OF the Titanic's fate to a
New York newspaper.
MarOni Denies knowledge.
Marconi maintained stoutly that he
had nothing to do with the shame
full business further than to permit
them to sell their stories after they
had arrived. Sammis admitted hay
ing sent the men dispatches from Sea
Gate, while the Carpathia was still
in bound. telling them that arrange
ments had been made for the sale of
their stories In -four figures" 1t
WAS this hush message. which in the
opinion OF the committee. mace II
impossible to get news from the Car
pahtia before her survivors came
ashore.
Sammis attempted to establish that
the sale OF these stories was not in
tended to he exclusive by announce
Ing that the International News ,er-
vice had tug equipped with wire
less. But the International News Ser
vice. in addition to paying for Its
own tug. paid the Marconi Company
$500 for fitting her out. and made no
attempt to dew up Gotham and
Bride the wireless men on the Car
pathia.
Indeed. when Sammfs discovered he
had made q mistake In silencing the
men on the Carpathia. he begged the
International News Service, In the
name of humanity" to nut board
the Carpathia it's wireless man. Jack
Binns. who was aboard the tug Soul
ly." The transfer was consented to by
the International News Service. and
Binns would have gone aboard the
lCarpathia to relieve Bride and Gotham
and tell the relatives and friends of
victims and survivors the news. had
not the wireless connection with the
Carpathia been broken as the tug
was heading for her.
Semtmis = Reluctant Witness.
Sammts was reluctant witness
} from the beginning. When he came
to the stand Marconi had disclosed
the facts about the International News
} Service tug. and he admitted them.
He also admitted that he had made a.
mistake In sending TO Sea Gate for
: transmission To. the carpathia. the
information to the operators that II
, y kept still they could sell their
! stories for -four figures.
Also he admitted that he had gone
to the Strand hotel. in West Four
teenth street the night the Cnrpa,hia
locked. to meet Gotham and Bride,
and deliver them to a representative
of the newspaper which had offered
the -four figures"
He didn't find them there but they
J found the newspaper representative.
/ and sold the information which all day
: long had been denied the American
people.