Show A tap from the dead A remarkable incident bearing almost in oat on the supernatural was related at an inquest at whitley day bay eng upon the body of henry which was waa found on the beach there ono one sunday morning recently the widow related how when her husband did not return at the usual time on saturday night she determined to sit up and wait for or him about I 1 a in she was sitting reading i a newspaper and dozing alternately when sho she was waa startled by hearing a gentle knocking at the front door this was followed said mrs afra fair bairn by a tati tap tapping at my bedroom window I 1 at once went out thinking it was my husband but I 1 could riot not see anyone after that I 1 became very much alarmed about my husband it was high tide at whitney bay about midnight on the saturday in question and the fact that body was found only a few yards below tile the high water mark shows that the man must have been dead at least four hours before his wife heard the knocking at the door and the tap ping at the window |