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P. and O. seaman
As far as I know the only P. and O. seaman who got involved in a homicide of prominence in Britain was not alive in 1888. It was Frederick Bywaters, the lover of the unfortunate Edith Thompson, and the murderer of Percy Thompson, in the 1922 -23 case that has remained a matter of controversy regarding Edith's conviction with Frederick as his co-planner in the killing (which he always denied). Bywaters was a steward on a P. and O. steamer.
Most Americans are unaware of P. and O. We think of British Atlantic steamers like Cunard and White Star. But if you are a movie fan, in the film NOW VOYAGER, when Bette Davis (as Charlotte Vale) is telling Claude Rains (as the psychiatrist, Dr. Jasquith) about her problems with her mother (Gladys Cooper) she recalls upon seeing a photo of the liner, that she and her mother went on a P and O liner a number of years earlier, and she had a romance with the wireless officer on board.
Jeff
As far as I know the only P. and O. seaman who got involved in a homicide of prominence in Britain was not alive in 1888. It was Frederick Bywaters, the lover of the unfortunate Edith Thompson, and the murderer of Percy Thompson, in the 1922 -23 case that has remained a matter of controversy regarding Edith's conviction with Frederick as his co-planner in the killing (which he always denied). Bywaters was a steward on a P. and O. steamer.
Most Americans are unaware of P. and O. We think of British Atlantic steamers like Cunard and White Star. But if you are a movie fan, in the film NOW VOYAGER, when Bette Davis (as Charlotte Vale) is telling Claude Rains (as the psychiatrist, Dr. Jasquith) about her problems with her mother (Gladys Cooper) she recalls upon seeing a photo of the liner, that she and her mother went on a P and O liner a number of years earlier, and she had a romance with the wireless officer on board.
Jeff
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