Another quote explains it better: “To give an illustration, we had Sampsell and McNabb, yacht bandits that came down from up north. McNabb was a bos’n with the steamship companies (I think it was the Dollar Line at that time which later became the American President Lines) and a sharp sort of a fellow in a way, but criminally inclined. Sampsell’s father owned a lot of restaurants in Los Angeles, and Sampsell had been in trouble before. He and McNabb teamed up. They became the yacht bandits. Now, they sailed this yacht down from up north to San Francisco. They had a plan on robbing banks, and as a result they robbed a bank in San Francisco, a bank in Berkeley, and a bank in north Oakland on Piedmont Avenue.”

See http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/v.....r.id=p80#X

Apparently he finished his sentence and in 1948 committed murder during a robbery http://www.claralaw.cpda.org/o.....ument_Case

He was eventually executed in the gas chamber 25 April 1952 http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ESPYstate.pdf