Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-15
Afternoon.

Constable Hyde was recalled. He was led
 to tell of huckleberry bushes that grew about
 an eighth of mile back of Savin Rock. Il
 will be remembered that huckleberries were
 found in Jennie Cramer's stomach after death To Mir Doolittle the witness said that he did not know whether there were any
 berries on the bushes last August and that said bushes grew on rocky knoll, difficult
 to climb.
 William A. Peck, jr., of West Haven was next called He testified-I have been civil and military engineer for twelve or fourteen years and have been in the employ of the government engaged upon surveys and forti- fcations. For the last four years have been engaged on harbor work. I am familiar with the tides at West Haven, all our harbor work
 being done with reference to the tides. l have been familiar with the West Haven shore for twenty years. September 19 1881, I made surveys at West Haven. transferred the mark showing the plane of mean low wa ter as established in New Haven to West Ha- ven then September 21 I got elevation of the highest points of the bars above that plane of mean low water. I finally found the highest point of the so-called outer bar, which is immediately opposite the first land ing on Kelseys wharf, to be three inches above the plane of mean low water. The highest point of the next inner bar was foot and one inch above the plane of mean low water
 The next inshore bar, immediately in front of where the body of Jennie Cramer was found I found to be two feet three inches above the plane of mean low water, within 8 range of one hundred feet east of the first landing on Kelsey's wharf I next measured those by time, as it is termed. There is a regular fall of 05 feet of tide, and it takes about six hours in rising. which would give foot an hour, or an inch 8 minute. On that day, September 21, noted the time it took the tide to cover those bars, I found the water covered the outer bar in sixteen minutes the next bar in one hour and five minutes (from the time the tide commenced to rise) and the inner bar was covered in two hours and seventeen minutes. On September % I again measured those bars and I found no them. Again on October I measured them and found the outer bar had gained six inches in height or nine inches above mean low water. The next bar had changed two inches. There was no perceptible change on the inner bar. On three different occasions made observations as to the set of the current down there, all of them at uoou tlue anu DeglnnlnB at young uoou- soon after the tide began to rise. On two of those occasions there was 8 south or south west wind blowing. threw over floats from near the first landing of Kelsey's wharf. I noticed they took direction directly toward where the body was found. On the next oc- casion there was no wind and the float went westward and inward. Two or three days after the body was found I looked at the bars and it seemed to me, when I made my meas urements in September, that channel in front of where the body was found, looking seaward, had filled in since I saw it in August. The bars had also changed little. According to Da- bolPs almanac, the outer bar on the morning ot August would be under water at 1851, the next inner bar at 2:41, and the innermost bar at 3:51. Where the body was found was one inch higher than the top of the inner bar, and that point would be covered by the rising water at 356.
 The witness pointed out on the map the various runs and shoals off the shore as far IS the outer bar, and then produced map l which he had prepared, showing the place of mean low water, the height of the bars and | he time each would be covered on the morn ng of August 6.
 It was high water that day, he continued, ]