“In the face of the warnings at New York that the Lusitania would be torpedoed, did you make any application to the Admiralty for an escort?” “No, I left that to them. It is their business, not mine. I simply had to carry out my orders to go, and I would do it again.” Captain Turner uttered the last words of this reply with great emphasis. By the coroner: “I am very glad to hear you say so, Captain.” By a juryman: “Did you get a wireless to steer your vessel in a northerly direction?” “No,” replied Captain Turner. “Was the course of the vessel altered after the torpedoes struck her?” “I headed straight for land, but it was useless. Previous to this the water-tight bulkheads were closed. I suppose the explosion forced them open. I don’t know the exact extent to which the Lusitania was damaged.” “There must have been serious damage done to the water-tight bulkheads.” “There certainly was, without doubt.” “Were the passengers supplied with life-belts?” “Yes.” “Were any special orders given that morning that life-belts be put on?” “No.” NO WARNING GIVEN “Was any warning given you before you were torpedoed?” “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.” 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.