night, about 12 o'clock
` This time neither of the servants made any attempt to follow or observe what was taking place . They say they heard the hall door softly pulled to , but nothing more . ` Shortly afterwards they both fell asleep . ` The same night , about 12 o'clock , a fisherman of the place , named Evan Thomas , was coming up from the beach . He had been doing some night fishing . ` As he got on to the esplanade he observed the figure of a woman walking swiftly away from him in the direction of Newton Bay . He knows prisoner well , and believes it was she he saw .