New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-05-10
AMERICANS SCORE
J. L|FE-BoAT f|Asco
AffidaVjts Of i. S. Passengers &C.
Gurtdby Consu ate atQu:en5tOWa.

/ MAY lV, l:0l a. nl.--AIluaVlIS mace Dy
Miss Jessie Taft Smith of Braceville,
Ohio, DR.. Howard l.. Fisher. Major
F. Warren Pearl and Robert Rankin
of New York, are the only permanent
records of the Lusitania disaster OBJ
tanned by the United States consulate
here. All are brief and none reflects
seriously upon the behavior of the
Lusitania's crew except what some
witnesses consider the life-boat fiasco.
The affidavits of Miss Smith and Mr..
Rankin were cabled tonight to Secre-
tary of State Bryan, while those of
Major Pearl and DR.. Fisher were
sent to Ambassador Page at London.
Beginning at noon today at Consul
Frost's orders, the bodies Of the iden-
titled Americans, covered with the
Stars and Stripes were removed from
scattered morgues and placed side by
side in the Cunard Line offices on the
water front. It,
49," Crowds Pay Respects.
AS they were carried through the
streets by British sailors the crowds
uncovered.
Cheap brown collins contained the
bodies of Charles Frohman, Isaac F.
Trumbull of Bridgeport, Conn; Mrs.
Henry D. MacDona of New York,
Charles H. Stevens of Atlantic City,
DR.. F. S. Pearson of New York, D.
Walker Of New York, DIR. Pearson's
secretary; Mrs. Mcbride, Hugh Comp
ton, II years old G. T. Brodrick of
Boston; Herbert Ellis of New York
and Mrs. Spillman of Detroit. Mr.
Frohman's secretary arrived today to
10 nH0 =
One of the survivors tonight iden-
titled the body of Mrs. r. D. Shymer
OF New York, the american widow of
an English nobleman, who subsequent
ly married an American and had been
living In New York. She was on her
way to London, and her name prob
ably will be added to the list of
American dead.
Bury Bodies Today.
A whole company of British SOL
diers today completed the digging of
three huge graves, each 80 by 20 feet,
in which the 140-odd identified dead
will be buried tomorrow. The moving
of bodies up the hill to the cemetery
, Will begin at $3.50 a. m, and continue
until 1890 p. m. Mounted police.
soldiers and civilians will participate.
There will be a joint service, clergy
men of all creeds joining in saving
prayers. %r.
Many bodies of children and little
babies still lie in the morgues. 1t is
probable these little ones will be
placed In a grave together.
Not a single body was brought in
today, from the spot where the Lusi-
tania disappeared.
Arrested for Espionage.
Lindell T. Bates, son of Linden w.
Bates of New York, vice chairman of
the American commission for the re-
lief of Belgium, was arrested at
Kinsale yesterday on a charge of
espionage while searching for the
body of his brother, Lindon w. Bates,
Jr., who is believed to have persisted
on the Lusitania. Newton B. Knox,
an american mining engineer, who
was with Mr.. Bates, was taken into
custody at the same time. w..
TIL sergeant who made the arrests
accused them of being officers of a
German submarine. After being taken
before captain they were detained
at the barracks a half hour until
United States Consul Frost at Queens
town vouched for them. Their search
of the coast revealed no trace of the
body Of l.. w. Bates, Jr.
Mrs. Watson Dead.
The body of Mrs. Anthony Watson
of New York, has been added to the
list of identified American dead while
the name of John Williams, nine years
CID, has been included In the list of
survivors.
William Webb, the representative of
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, wanted to send
out a tug last night to continue the
search for Mr.. Vanderbilt's body but
the admiralty and Cunard Line
officials discouraged the plan and it
was abandoned. There is no indica-
ton when the search for bodies
will be resumed.