Helmsman Hitchens

On a starry April night in 1912 Robert Hitchens stood at the wheel of the Titanic, world's biggest, newest, fastest ocean liner, guiding her at full speed on her maiden voyage through the Newfoundland ice fields. Suddenly above the far-off music of the ship's orchestra, Helmsman Hitchens felt a scrape of ice on steel. Three hours later the S. S. Titanic slid to the bottom. Helmsman Hitchens was one of some 300 men who with about 400 women and children got away in lifeboats from the greatest marine disaster in history.

Recently at Torquay beach, ex-Helmsman Robert Hitchens, now 51, had trouble over another boat. After a quarrel with one Frederick Henley over a little motorboat he shot and pinked Henley. Last week at the Winchester Assizes, Titanic Helmsman Hitchens was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for attempted murder.

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