CORONER HORGAN’S STATEMENT
Coroner Horgan said that the first torpedo fired by the German submarine did serious damage to the Lusitania, but that, not satisfied with this, the Germans had discharged another torpedo. The second torpedo, he said, must have been more deadly, because it went right through the ship, hastening the work of destruction.
He charged that the responsibility “lay on the German government and the whole people of Germany who collaborated in the terrible crime.
“This is a case,” he said, “in which a powerful war-like engine attacked an unarmed vessel without warning. It was simple barbarism and cold-blooded murder.
“I purpose to ask the jury to return the only verdict possible for a self-respecting jury—that the men in charge of the German submarine were guilty of willful murder.”
CHAPTER VII
THE WORLD-WIDE INDICTMENT OF GERMANY FOR THE LUSITANIA ATROCITY
[VIEWS OF COLONEL ROOSEVELT, UNITED STATES SENATORS AND OTHER PROMINENT MEN]—OPINIONS OF THE NEWSPAPERS OF THE [UNITED STATES] AND [CANADA] — [VIEWS OF PROMINENT CANADIANS].
Not even the invasion of peaceful Belgium, nor any of the other atrocities charged to the belligerent nations in the great war, stirred such universal and emphatic condemnation as the destruction of the Lusitania and over half its human freight of human lives. From all quarters of the globe the cry of amazement, indignation and outrage arose.