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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...
...when the United States Lines' S.S. America docked in New York with a sizzling labor dispute aboard, company officials prepared for the worst. The union's delegate, a wiry, intense ship's electrician named Walter Avellar, had served an ultimatum: either the company fired Chief Crew Steward W. S. McDonald and reinstated two seamen, or the ship would not sail. Roared grim-jawed, grim-tempered Commodore Harry Manning: "They can tie this ship up until hell freezes over, as far as I am concerned. The time has come to find out who runs the ship, the delegate...