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Updated: May 26, 2025
I turned wrathfully for a London street-boy's yell, let off at point-blank range, is, in effect, like the smack of an open hand but the inscription on the staring yellow poster that was held up for my inspection changed my anger to curiosity. "Horrible discovery in a watercress-bed!" Now, let prigs deny it if they will, but there is something very attractive in a "horrible discovery."
"Very well," rejoined the coroner, and he proceeded to call the witnesses, of whom the first was a laborer who had discovered the bones in the watercress-bed. "Do you happen to know how long it was since the watercress-beds had been cleaned out previously?" the coroner asked, when the witness had told the story of the discovery. "They was cleaned out by Mr.
"A startling discovery was made yesterday afternoon in the course of clearing out a watercress-bed near the erstwhile rural village of Sidcup in Kent; a discovery that will occasion many a disagreeable qualm to those persons who have been in the habit of regaling themselves with this refreshing esculent.
It made me shudder to read of it, for I couldn't help thinking of poor Uncle John, and, as for my father, he was really quite upset." "Are these the bones that were found in a watercress-bed at Sidcup?" "Yes, but they have found several more. The police have been most energetic.
Then came the labourer who discovered the bones at Sidcup, and who repeated the evidence that he had given at the inquest, showing that the remains could not have been lying in the watercress-bed more than two years. Finally Dr. Summers was called, and, after he had given a brief description of the bones that he had examined, was asked by Mr. Loram: "You have heard the description that Mr.
How much more it is impossible from inspection alone to say. The bones are perfectly clean that is, clean of all soft structures and will remain substantially in their present condition for many years." "The evidence of the man who found the remains in the watercress-bed suggests that they could not have been there for more than two years. Do the appearances in your opinion agree with that view?"
"A startling discovery was made yesterday afternoon in the course of clearing out a watercress-bed near the erstwhile rural village of Sidcup in Kent; a discovery that will occasion many a disagreeable qualm to those persons who have been in the habit of regaling themselves with this refreshing esculent.
"Very well," rejoined the coroner, and he proceeded to call the witnesses, of whom the first was the labourer who had discovered the bones in the watercress-bed. "Do you happen to know how long it was since the beds had been cleaned out previously?" the coroner asked, when the witness had told the story of the discovery. "They was cleaned out by Mr. Tapper's orders just before he gave them up.
The watercress-bed was cleaned out about two years ago, so they could not have been lying there longer than that; and their condition suggests that they could not have been there much less than two years, as there is apparently no vestige of the soft structures left. Of course, I am speaking from the newspaper reports only; I have no direct knowledge of the matter."
How much more it is impossible from inspection alone to say. The bones are perfectly clean that is, clean of all soft structures and will remain substantially in their present condition for many years." "The evidence of the man who found the remains in the watercress-bed suggests that they could not have been there more than two years. Do the appearances, in your opinion, agree with that view?"
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