CAMB LOSES APPEAL
DEATH SENTENCE STANDS EXECUTIONS SUSPENDED LONDON. April 26. The Court of Criminal Appeal dismissed tlie appeal of James Camb, aged 31, a deck steward against the sentence of death imposed on March 22 for niurder on the high seas of the actress. Gay Gibson . , , . . Camb goes into British legal history as the first British murderer to lose his appeal against a death sentence that he knew would never be carried ° U Camb was in the condemned cell when the House of Commons experimentally suspended the death penalty, for murder.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22623, 28 April 1948, Page 5
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