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in the constancy of this great herring fishery .
to the mouth of a great salmon river , has
( Just how the seine ropes do this is not yet proved ; it may
to overcome its effect , very few fish would be caught .
through or along the bottom . ) But given such a bow
sand ; or even in the case of flat fish , by vibrations
wave of disturbance , it is obvious that without something
be by actual contact , or by sight reaction to the disturbed
aware of the moving footrope before
appear to be the simplest case -
they become ( 1 ) tired , or ( 2 ) more used
Let us consider first what would
The evidence suggest that the fish are
to the disturbance .
that of flat fish on the bottom .
it , swimming at the same speed
it reaches them . They move away before
for an unknown period of time , until
sea-bed , though the footrope in this case
indeed passing over some fish .
the footrope , and presumably out of its
that the wave might be transmitted by the
the seine-net film this usually seemed to
happen just after the fish had risen above
was actually just off the bottom and was
field of disturbance , or bow wave . This suggests
Then they stop swimming and are caught . In
Cover in the fast-moving trawl is considered
reaction to disturbance would be upwards .
would seem to be even more essential ;
And in this film the rise of the fish was
essential to catch round fish whose
fish like haddock , which would hardly
but more films are needed to prove this .
small , a matter of a foot or two . With round
find safety on the bottom , this cover
Actually the seine net has little or no cover .
They also had to cope with the usual flood of rumours , so-
in which she had died , there was nothing on
the victim and inspecting at Waterloo the carriage
adjourned .
the Thursday evening , with blood actually dripping from
his hands . The inquest was opened on February 17 , but ,
man had been seen fleeing from Vauxhall station on
me well meant , some mischievous , including one that a
beyond the jury hearing a formal identification of
which to proceed , and the inquest was
Day by day the police followed up likely and even unlikely
a detailed account of his movements on the 11th . The dead
named Brown .
trails . It was learned that Elizabeth Camp had been lending
woman had been engaged once before - to a barman
money to her relatives , and her brother-in-law was asked for
money . All the while the police were casting about
as a man of about thirty , of medium height , with
This man agreed that his engagement had
and a top-hat .
at Wandsworth . A passenger described this individual
a dark moustache , and wearing a frockcoat
for a man who had been seen leaving the train
tiff , but denied that he owed Miss Camp any
been broken off after one particular
defective , and , despite his claim to infamy ,
description , but the man was not traced .
The porter at the station bore out this
at Wandsworth police-station , claiming to have
committed the murder - but he was mentally
for a man did obligingly present himself
Perhaps the news of their search got around ,
had been nowhere near the 7.42 that evening .
dactyloscopy was only in its beginnings .
a verdict of " wilful murder against some person or
persons unknown . " The most vital clue of the Wedgwood
adjournments , until April 7 , finally had to be content to return
And so the inquest , which had dragged on , with
pestle had been of no assistance . The killer must
have been very thankful that the science of
sinister in the idea of tunnels . The building of
solution emerged . There has always been something
yet so strange were the circumstances that it was
hazardous business .
were many people who believed that to travel
through tunnels would be an equally
The next female fatality occurred eight years later ,
a further seven years before even a ghost of a
them was one of the most dangerous jobs con-
nected with railway construction ; and there
Some thought that the result would be all
by it will be so heartily sick , what with the
wrote an anti-railway industrialist when it was
of a railway will be worse than Ipecacuanha , "
sorts of horrible illnesses brought on by the
confined atmosphere . " The shareholders who travel
proposed to build the Box Tunnel .
foul air , smoke and sulphur , that the mention
said , " the deafening peal of thunder , the sudden
gave others a feeling of danger . A medical journal
immersion in gloom , and the clash of reverberated
darkness .
passengers would be robbed and assaulted in the