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Convicted of criminal negligence were The New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., operator of the Ward liner; Executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud, the shore official in charge of safeguarding the Morro Castle; Acting Captain William F. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, the two chief officers of the ship which took 124 lives...
George Ehrenfried '35, John H. Eric '37, Martin S. Erlanger '38, Benjamin G. C. Fincke '37, Irving C. Fine '37, Egbert W. Fischer '36, Walter D. Fischer '37, Eben H. Fiske ocC., Thomas Flint gr.E. S., Cleavland Floyd, Jr. '37, Hans W. Forster '36, William D. Fraser '38, Emil J. Ganem '37, Francis A. Goodhue, Jr. '37, Nathaniel B. Groton, Jr. '37, John H. Gilbert...
...Gorham Brigham '37, Leonard K. Bristol '38, Edward B. Brooks '37, John H. Burns '37, William G. Burt '38, Hallock G. Campbell, Gr., Courtland Canby '36, Edward T. Canby, Gr., Robert S. Chafee '36, William V. Doering '38, George Ehrenfried '35, John H. Eric '37, Matin S. Erlanger '38, Eben H. Fiske ocC., H. Walter Forster '36, William Fraser '38, Richard L. Gregg '38, N. Babcock Groton '37, Arthur R. Hartwig '37, Morrison C. Haviland '37, Malcolm L. Hayward '38, Hugh F. Hinckley '87, James C. Hopkins '38, William A. Johnson '36, George Keller '37, Morris E. Lasker '38, John...
Charged with "wilful negligence" were the vessel's Acting Captain William F. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott. Charged with "fraud, neglect and connivance in violation of law" was Executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud of New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co.. which chartered the Morro Castle from its parent company, Atlantic. Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwi). Likewise indicted was the company itself, known to the trade as the Ward Line. Released on $2,500 bail each, the individual defendants face a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment, $10,000 fine...
...them exhibited either the grossest lack of seamanship or the utmost cowardice. Chief Engineer Eben S. Abbott, awakened in his quarters, went to rouse his first assistant. The first assistant was already on his way to his fire station in the engine room. That was also Chief Abbott's station but he did not go there. Instead he telephoned down to see how things were going. He then toured the ship to inspect the fire. Soon he met the first assistant on his way up from below. By this time Chief Abbott had decided that "it was every...