Anonymous ID: 09d119 June 6, 2024, 11:35 a.m. No.20978520   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8524 >>8780 >>8870 >>9087 >>9169

https://www.marinersmuseum.org/2020/04/tragedy-on-the-mississippi/

Captain Mason, who bribed Hatch into giving him so many passengers, died aboard his boat. Survivors reported seeing him doing what he could to help the people on board. Colonel Reuben Hatch, upon hearing the news, immediately quit the military and fled the state. As a civilian, military courts could no longer pursue legal action against him. Captain George Williams, who left his post at the docks, was a career military man and a graduate of West Point. The military courts refused to go after one of their own.