, it was ascertained that the deceased,
Ist in conversation with the relieving

t Mate on Monday, April 3rd, had .

ed that he was going that day to Liver-
| to collect the balance of his pay for the
age from the Marconi Offices, and also to
w some money in respect of compensation
loss of effects when a previous ship on
ich he was serving had been torpedoed.
‘ective officers were accordingly des-
ched to Liverpool where it was ascer-
yed that on April 3rd Percey had drawn
sroximately £22 in respect of balance of
- for the voyage and a further £66 from
Mercantile Marine Office in respect of
loss of effects. Further enquiries at the
er office and at the bank disclosed that
cashier from whom Percey had drawn
£66 had commenced that day’s payments
ha bundle of one-pound notes, the serial
mbers of which were supplied as
38.H.514001 to 514500, and that it was

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the cashier’s habit to pay all sums over £50
in new notes.

It will be remembered that when a mi-
nute search of the cabin and the deceased’s
effects was made only the sum of 4s. 7d.
was found, which was in the pocket of the
clothes worn by the deceased, and therefore
robbery now appeared to be the motive for
the crime.

CHIEF STEWARD SUSPECTED

Intensive enquiry was still being made to
establish the identity of the Chief Steward,
but by Tuesday, April 11th, the enquiries
had not met with any success. On that day,
however, officers detailed to make further
enquiry of all persons who had been em-
ployed on or near the ship were successful
in locating a Cargo Supervisor who had
been employed on the Pacific Shipper on the
afternoon of April 6th and who had seen
Percey, in company with the Chief Steward,
ascending the steps to the bridge during that
afternoon. This witness at first could give
no information to assist in identifying the
Chief Steward other than to confirm the
description which had already been supplied
by several others. He also had seen the
Chief Steward on odd occasions in various
licensed houses in the Docks area. He was
pressed for any other information which
would assist to identify the man, and some
time later he remembered that he had once
seen the suspected Chief Steward in a
licensed house in conversation with another
Chief Steward whose ship was then in the
Docks. This Chief Steward was immedi-
ately located and he was able to say that
the only Chief Steward he had had a drink
with in the named public house was a man
named Galbraith.

Reference to the list previously obtained
from the Shipping Offices furnished the full
name and address of a Chief Steward named
James Galbraith, whose home was just out-
side the boundary of this city.

Photographic negatives of the finger im-
pressions found on the bottles and the glasses
in the deceased’s cabin had been forwarded,
together with the fingerprints of the deceased
for elimination, to the headquarters of the
West Riding Constabulary, Wakefield, for
expert examination and comparison gener-
ally. Following the development in identi-

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fying the suspected Chief Steward as the
man named Galbraith, the Wakefield Police
were asked to compare the finger impressions
on the bottles and glasses with those of
James Galbraith, whose record and finger
impressions were already known. Within
an hour a reply was received from the
Fingerprint Department at Wakefield that
a small portion of a finger impression found
on one of the drinking glasses bore seven
points of comparison with a fingerprint of
James Galbraith in their files. Whilst this
fact strengthened the information then
available, it was made quite clear that a
fingerprint expert could not be called from
Wakefield to give definite evidence that the
impression on the glass was that of one of
Galbraith’s fingers, as the number of points
of comparison was insuficient for the pur-
pose of giving evidence in the Courts.

Enquiries were then made at Galbraith’s
home, where it. was elicited from his mother
that her son had not returned home on the
night of Thursday, April 6th, but had
returned about 11:30 a.m. on Friday, April
7th. He then told her that he had been
working all night victualling a ship; that
the ship had sailed and that he had got good
pay and bonus from the Captain for getting
it victualled in time. He did not say how
much he had drawn but his mother said he

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