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...dance on the last night of Gay's life the steward had murmured that he had half a mind to take a drink to her cabin. At 2 a.m. he did. When she had finished it, Camb said, "I climbed on the bed beside her. She raised no objection." Later, she fainted. Camb could not revive her. In a panic, he snaked her body through the porthole into the sea. It was never found...
...miles off the coast of Portuguese Guinea, she was pushed through a porthole into the ocean -perhaps alive, perhaps dead-from a first-class cabin on "B" deck of the steamship Durban Castle. Eight days later, when the Durban Castle put into Southampton, detectives came aboard and arrested James Camb, a deck steward, for the murder of Eileen Gibson...
Five months to the day after Gay's disappearance, Camb went on trial for his life. He sat in the dock at the Hampshire Assizes in a shedlike courtroom of canvas and plywood, incongruous amidst stained glass and granite pillars, within the 13th Century Great Hall of Winchester Castle. Most of the space in the public gallery was occupied by fashionably dressed women, many of whom appeared daily at 5:30 a.m. to make sure of a seat. The press made much of this welcome diversion from the European crisis...
...what of Camb? At 31 he was a self-assured rounder with a Lancashire accent and a high shine to his black hair. Shipmates called him "Don Jimmy." A married man, he had boasted of an affair a voyage; two girls had accused him of rape. Said a fellow steward: "Jimmy was always saying we were jealous...
...Printing $151.63 Gen. Supplies 30.00 Carbons 1.75 File Cases 62.99 Phone, buzzer, inst. 10.68 257.05 Secretary 37.60 $294.65 Scholarships 990.00 Class Album 100.00 Charities 425.00 Bank Charges (Bad checks, improperly made out, etc.) 22.25 Phillips Brooks House 2000.00 Savings Account in Cambridge Savings Bank 1000.00 $4831.90 Present Bank Balance (Camb. Trust...