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Dickie ‘never recovered’ from William’s death and when his wife Jane died after a short illness the following year, Dickie went into a steep decline, dying on 12 August 1919. The obituary in his own newspaper, where he had worked for forty-eight years, said: ‘With characteristic devotion to duty, even though his strength was greatly impaired, he continued to edit the paper . . . and it may be said that he literally died in harness.’

Kate Hume
never fully recovered from Jock’s death or the many catastrophes that engulfed the Hume family afterwards, including her imprisonment and trial. After her release, Kate went into domestic service and in 1919 she married a railway engine driver, Thomas Terbit, with whom she had four children. She never told them about the court case. In 1927 she had a son whom she christened John Law Hume Terbit. The boy died in 1946, aged eighteen, from cerebrospinal meningitis. Kate died the following year. She was fifty. She is survived by a daughter, Grace, who is in her eighties and lives in Glasgow.

Kate’s defence counsel, John Wilson, went on to become one of the best-loved and most prominent counsels at the Scottish Bar. In 1917 he was appointed Sheriff of Perthshire and, ex-officio, a member of HM Prison Board for Scotland, a position he used to press for reforms in the prison system. As a Law Lord he took the title Lord Ashmore, after his home in Perthshire. He died in 1932.

Andrew Hume Jnr
formed a band called Andy and the Boys, who enjoyed moderate success for a while. He married, divorced, remarried and disappeared to Australia in the Fifties without leaving a forwarding address.

Nellie Hume
and
Grace Hume
both left Dumfries and never returned after the scandal of Kate’s trial and their father’s court cases. Nellie became a music teacher and Grace a nurse. I have been unable to trace their movements after 1914.

Captain Frederick Larnder
continued to captain the
Mackay-Bennett
during the First World War. In 1922 he was appointed Captain of the commercial cable company’s new cable-laying ship, the
John W Mackay
, before retiring to England in 1925.

The
Mackay-Bennett
continued to repair undersea cables throughout the First World War. She was finally retired in May 1922, and her last voyage was to Plymouth, England, to be used for storage. During the Second World War she was sunk during a bombing raid but later refloated. She was scrapped in 1963.

Tom Mullin
continued to be pursued by bad luck beyond the grave. Recovered by the SS
Minia
, he was identified by his steward’s badge, No. 32, and buried in Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax. His brother and two sisters received financial assistance from the Titanic Relief Fund. Mullin’s badge, along with his watch, steward’s pocket-book and a postcard, were returned to his family. In 2003 a relative, believing they were bringing the family continuing bad luck, put them into an auction in Dumfries where a retired policeman bought them for £102. The following year the badge was bought by an unnamed collector at auction for £28,000. Similar sums were offered for his watch, which is also believed to be in the hands of a collector.

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Acknowledgements

I owe a great debt of thanks to my friends Mark and Colette Douglas Home who not only encouraged me to write this book but introduced me to their agent, Maggie Pearlstine, who made it happen. My publisher at Hodder & Stoughton, Rupert Lancaster, then nursed me through it, helping me make the giant leap from tabloid journalist to author. My thanks, too, to Camilla Dowse and Kate Miles at Hodder: Camilla researching and sourcing most of the images in this book and Kate bringing the whole project together in a very short period of time.

Many people have kindly given me many hours of their time assisting me with research. David Rattray, Keeper of Instruments at the Royal Academy of Music, provided an important insight into the wonderful world of stringed instruments, in particular the fiddle, which was central to understanding the mind and life of Andrew Hume. Alan Ruffman, author of the definitive book on the aftermath,
Titanic Remembered – The Unsinkable Ship And Halifax
, shared his encyclopaedic knowledge with me. Garry Shutlak, Senior Reference Archivist at the Nova Scotia Archives, who would win
Mastermind
on the subject of the
Titanic
, also steered me in the right direction in the Halifax archives and corrected multiple misconceptions. Lynne Marie Richard at the marvellous Maritime Museum in Halifax was kind enough to let me read the
Mackay-Bennett
log in the middle of a busy morning when she was setting up a new exhibition. Ed Kamuda, who founded and runs the Titanic Historical Society with his wife Karen and sister Barbara, welcomed my wife and me to their museum in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts. Brian Ticehurst, a former newspaper press operative in Southampton, who has made a lifetime study of the
Titanic
Relief Fund’s distributions, generously opened his voluminous files to me. I am indebted to the American collector, Craig Sopin, for the picture of Jock taken in his teens, which I had never seen, and for his kind permission to reproduce Andrew Hume’s handwritten letter to the Titanic Relief Fund, which is also in his collection.