News stories from around the time of Titanic’s Voyage – April 14, 1912

At 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, the Titanic struck the iceberg which would sink her less than three hours later. What did the New York Sun report the morning before the sinking?

Readers from yesterday may be relieved that ten-month-old Ruth Fleischman was found safe and sound and restored to her parents. The kidnapper was sent to Bellevue.

A woman named Mary Garden lost her earring on a train trip from Buffalo to Syracuse, and it was restored to her. Front page news!

Ah, but here is a reminder that 1912 was a different time indeed.

GUARD OFFICER FINED FOR INSULTING WOMAN

Lieut. R. A. White of the Seventh Arrested After Speaking to Mrs. Boyd on the Street.

SHE WAS WITH HER HUSBAND

Magistrate Says If He Had Been There He Would Have Knocked White Down.

Liut. Robert A. White of Company N., the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. Y., was arrested last night and fined $10 for talking on the street to a woman he didn’t know. Lieut. White was with Lieut. George B. Hill, also of the Seventh, when the incident occurred, and later in the night court other officers of the Seventh Regiment appeared who wanted to testify to White’s good character.

The woman spoken to was Mrs. Evelyn Boyd, 25 years old, the wife of Edwin Boyd, a civil engineer on the Florida East Coast Railway. The Boyds live at 301 West Twenty-ninth street. Boyd is North just now on a vacation.

Early last evening Mrs. Boyd and her husband were standing at Twenty-ninth street and Fourth avenue waiting for a crosstown car. Two men came down Fourth avenue and when one of them saw Mrs. Boyd he said, according to what she told Magistrate House in the night court, “Hello, kid. Get rid of that man and come along with us. We’ll give you a good time.”

“Look out,” responded Boyd, “or I’ll have you locked up.”

Liut. White made an answer and Boyd was on the point of letting go with his right hand, when Policeman Holub came up to ask what the trouble was. Mrs. Boyd said Lieut. White had insulted her and she wanted him arrested, whereupon the policeman took the officer to the East Thirty-fifth street station and locked him up.

When White was brought before Magistrate House in night court he gave his name as Robert Brown. Magistrate House asked him to tell his real name. White thought a moment and then said he was Robert A. White, a real estate dealer at 128 Broadway. He lives at 117 West 227th street. Lieut. Hill, who appeared as a witness, gave his address as 701 West 17th street.

White told Magistrate House that he and Lieut. Hill had dined at the Park Avenue Hotel and on their way downtown afterward a man standing at Twenty-ninth street and Fourth avenue had insulted him. Mrs. Boyd interposed to say that her husband had not spoken to White until the officer spoke to her.

“I believe Mrs. Boyd,” said the magistrate. “If I had stood on the corner with my wife and you had spoken to her I would have knocked you down.”

Four other offiers of the Seventh REgiment had been gathered in a hurry and united to testify as to White’s character. They said he had been an officer in the Seventh for twelve years and was generally respected.

“This insulting of women in the streets of New York must be stopped,” said Magistrate House. “Mr. White, I fine you $10.”

Mr. White paid the fine.