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People wanted more than that: the city’s anger was close to the boiling point.
Why had Mont-Blanc been allowed to steam through heavy harbour traffic, past densely-populated areas, without any warnings? Angry citizens didn't care that there had been many similar passages through the Narrows without incident.
In a country debating conscription [?], the fact that Mont-Blanc’s crew was French became a focus, and at one point its captain required police protection.
There were questions too about the Imo’s crew of Norwegians, whose accents sounded German to some Halifax ears. Had a spy been at work?
The owners of Imo hired one of the province’s best-known lawyers, Charles Burchell. His grilling of the man being blamed on the street and in the media was unrelenting. The three were the harbour's Chief Examining Officer Commander Frederick Wyatt, Mont-Blanc's captain Aimé Le Médec and its local pilot, Francis Mackey.
Drysdale rarely interfered with Burchell's tactics, and he delivered his conclusions within an hour of the last hearing on February 4th, 1918: Mont-Blanc was completely at fault for the collision, he said....