Witness: I knew Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon’s name when we arrived in America.
The Attorney General: Did you say anything in America about having received the five pounds?
Witness: No, sir; and I was not asked.
The Attorney General: You were asked these very questions in America which we have been putting to you to-day about going back?
Witness: Yes, sir.
The Attorney General: Why did you not say that you heard the cries, but in the exercise of your discretion as “master of the situation” you did not go back?
Witness: They took us in three at a time in America and they hurried us through the questions.
The Attorney General: They asked you: “Did you make any effort to get there,” and you said: “Yes; we went back and could not see anything.” But you said nothing about your discretion. Why did you not tell them that part of the story? You realized that if you had gone back you might have rescued a good many people?
Witness: Yes.
The Attorney General: The sea was calm, the night was calm and there could not have been a more favorable night for rescuing people?