Having been convicted fortnight ago of criminal negligence in the burning of the T. E. L. Mono Castle, the defendants last week received the following sentences: Acting Captain William F. Warms, two years in jail; Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, four years in jail; New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., a fine of $10,000; its executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud, a fine of $5,000, a suspended sentence of a year in jail.
Last week closed another notorious shipwreck scandal, that of the S. S. Vestris, which went down in a storm...
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