Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-15

the Inner paf dG o:Ol. AL the hour the DOuy was found there must have been four inches of water over the inner bar. Where the body was found the depth was ? feet inches | more than mean low water. At half f-past , | o'clock there was 1 foot 9 inches of water over the bar.
 This bar is 175 feet from the place where Asa Curtiss put the stake to mark the spot | where he found the body.
 A high wind blowing on shore would accel- crate the flow of the water.
 In the run through the outer bar there would be about two feet of water at mean low water. I think the inner flats would be bare At half past on Saturday morning tue depth of water over the lowest point of the bar immediately in front of where the body was found would have been two feet three inches. The height of Kelseys wharf at the outer landing is thirteen feet six inches above mean low water.
 With the wind and tide as 1t was Saturday morning would there have been any difficulty in a body floating from between the first and second landings to the point where Jennie Cramer's body was found and getting there between half past and
 There would have been none whatever. should have expected body placed in the water between the old wreck and the wharf to have drifted to the vicinity described. l went that morning from Nichols wharf to Long Wharf in small boat and found there was sharp south wind blowing
 To Mir. Doolittle the witness, on cross examination, described the methods he had employed in making his observations. MT. Peck sad that one of the mean low water marks he had made use of was spile driver in 8 spile at the end of Long Wharf. The government had placed it there and worked by it.
 ''The government don't live,' said Mir. Doolittle. ''that lives and breathes and drives spikes"
 The witness, somewhat nettled by the i'm piled reflections on his professional knowl- edge and honesty. snapped back at the State attorney that the coast survey established the work and directed him to use it in his harbor work.
 Mir. Doolittle read from the tide record in his hand at some length Witness said that was the record furnished by the United States government. MT. Doolittle didn't care if it was. Witness should understand that it was not calculated for the North Haven meadows but for out
 side, said Mir Doolittle emphatically, warm ing with his subject and sailing in on the full crest of his sea of argument. "We'I stop just here" said the court, which created burst of subdued merriment in the court room, topping, as it did, MT. Doolittle's eloquent peroration. During recess ali the lawyers got together and had discussion about the tide, and all talked at one time in sociable way, but in l high key, and the audience looked amused | and happy. 'I know something about the tides" said Mir. Doolittle, concluding the ln- | formal little controversy. Sheriff Byxbee didn't rap this time when ' the form of Judge Granger appeared in the | doorway, coming to take his seat. It was ! Deputy Sheriff Tucker who rapped, the sheriff | having stepped out at call ! Mir DooIittle enquired again of witness as Al.a l | certain places by witness almanac. The hours and places agreed with the table which | Mir. Doolittle had l How long does it remain dead low water at
 the Lighthouse? About 33 minutes. l Where is that laid down? In the coast sur vey.
 Whereabouts in it Do you want the page? We'll you made mistake didn't you in your | calculations, that is you didn't make the al ! lowance for dead low water, when tide re- | mains stationary. Mr. Doolittle eloquently and dispassionate- 1 ly described how the tide acted, and asked | witness if it was not as described. Witness said: Not as vlvidly as you de- | scribed.
 | A disquisition here ensued on tides by Mr. Doolittle, who ended by saying in 8 very dis l tinct key: ''Six feet of water makes dam,
 doesn't it ?'' Witness said, 'pve never seen | it."
 Mir. Doolittle 'went for'' witness sharply. | Witness kept fairly easy and cool. He in l quired of witness where he learned what he I knew? Witness began to state, saying he had l been in the Engineer corps. l Mir. Doolittle interrupted-Oh, you carried 8 flag CT something didn't you; well, that didn't amount to anything. Witness-I was proceeding to tell you. 1 Mr. DoolittIe-Oh, you went to school in | Waterbury and so on, never mind. l Mr. # ojp, hot n1rrhk Witness-Where? l Mr. Doolittle-Where you were. Witness said yes. MT. Doolittle and witness had further | talk about the technical meaning of old junk
 It finally came down to old rigging, old | ropes. Witness weighted it so that the top of the masts would be level with the top of
 the water,-about completely submerged. l Witness-Well, the top was just under the 1 surface of the water. Mir. Doolittle-You said masts. 1 Witness-No, I said mass 1 MT Jones-He said mass. l Witness-I put the on the water about 200 feet below the first landing going out l This experiment was on the first occasion. | The wind was little south of southwest it | was about 8 o'clock in the morning. The date was between the Fist of September and l the 9th of October ! We'll, where did that go to? It went to within 12 or 15 feet of the stake driven where the body was first found. | How long did it take to get there !? About ! 45 minutes.
 ] MT. Doolittle asked 8 hard question and had to explain it, and the result was that
 there had been 8 misunderstanding as to
 ''east" and ''west." A tangle ensued again
 in minute. Witness said, ''Oh, you are all
 wrong again." and the audience laughed at | the encounter. Witness claimed that the l wind xpOu16 ohiactc Hootiro fbo water.
 | "Yes," said Mr. Doolittle, 'but you said it was submerged ?'' Witness stuck to it that
 the word would have the effect he desired. On the other occasion what object did you | use? similar one. l Use any other float at any other time No, sir" said witness, musingly, 'I don't 1 think I did.''
 Can you give me the date of the second oc- ! casion? Witness, after reflection, said he ! could not be positive. It was between the l 21st of September and the 9th of October. You made these observations, didn't you, i for this trial? suppose so. And you didn't make any note of it ? If I did I don't remember. went down to | measure bars and it was so rough I couldn't do it..
 You might have known that without going down? I might. There was a strong wind? Yes. NOW what float d1d you use on the other
 occasion? A similar one. The rope and the stone? Yes. Were they all the same float? Mo- sepa- rate ones
 Can you tell the date of that experiment? I know that was on the Sth of October; it
 was cast overheard about o'clock in the
 morning; the tide think was about two- thirds high I can't give the exact time It
 was Sunday morning. sir.
 Will you look at your almanac and tell me the state of the tide Sunday morning? Wit ness reached out and took his almanac and scanned it and said it was high water that
 morning at 12:23-by Daboll's. Mr. Doo- little said it didn't agree with his almanac
 Well, witness said, yours isn't correct.
 Mir. Dwell, mine has the Connecticut coat of arms upon it.
 Witness-Yours is printed at Hartford
 Mir. Doolittle and witness discussed the sand question and differed about tits stick ing out of the water,'' and MT. Doolittle laughed quiet laugh as he closed.
 Witness and MT Doolittle again differed on point as to witness measurements "Oh, you're all wrong again" witness said.
 Now, you say there no difficulty about the body floating in to where found. Have