Gay's body was thrown out of a porthole by deck steward James Camb during a voyage ... heavily when he slid under the water in the ship's hot tub and drowned while a crowd looked on.

WILMINGTON, N.C., Thursday, May 10. Six of the crew (four black and two white) of the ship Robert Steword, from Mobile for Liverpool, were taken from a raft in lat. 34° 10′, lon. 71° 45′, on ...