Word: steward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Crown contended that the steward had strangled the girl and had disposed of the body to hide his crime...
...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...
...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...
Last week, after four days of hearing the evidence, 45 minutes of deliberation, the jury found the steward guilty of murder. Mr. Justice Hilbery donned the black cap. Did Camb have anything to say before he was sentenced? "My Lord," replied Camb coolly, "at the beginning of this case ... I pleaded not guilty. I repeat that statement now. That...