The Duff-Gordons were the only passengers to testify at the subsequent hearings on the sinking and were cleared by the British Wreck Commission who determined that they had not deterred others from being rescued.
A letter from Lady Duff-Gordon, angry about the treatment they received in the press and public on their return to England sold at a Boston auction earlier this year for nearly $12,000.
Francantelli wrote Salomon that she hoped he had recovered from his experience and "the unjust inquiry."
Abraham Lincoln Salomon was the owner of a wholesale stationery business in New York.
--DaCoot
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