“None whatever. It was suddenly done and finished.”
“If there had been a patrol boat aboard; might it have been of assistance?”
“It might, but it is one of those things one never knows.”
With regard to the threats against his ship, Captain Turner said he saw nothing except what appeared in the New York papers the day before the Lusitania sailed. He never had heard the passengers talking about the threats, he said.
“Was a warning given to the lower decks after the ship had been struck?” Captain Turner was asked.
“All the passengers must have heard the explosion,” Captain Turner replied.
Captain Turner in answer to another question said he received no report from the lookout before the torpedo struck the Lusitania.
OTHER TESTIMONY
Cornelius Horrigan, a waiter aboard the Lusitania, testified that it was impossible to launch boats on the starboard side because of the steamer’s list. He went down with the ship, but came up and was rescued. Horrigan gave a partial identification of one of the bodies, which he thought to be that of Steward Cranston.
The ship’s bugler, Vernon Livermore, gave evidence that the water-tight compartments were closed, but thought that the explosion must have opened them. No one was able to identify a man in whose pocket was found a card bearing the name of John Wanamaker of New York, and in the left-hand corner “Notary Public MacQuerrie, Bureau of Information.”