Anyway, after a blow like that, he'd be unconscious.

But I'm thinking he was dead before the water closed on him." Mr.Lindsey looked closer at the mark, and at the hole in the centre of it.
"Has it struck any of you how that could be caused ?" he asked suddenly.
"It hasn't?
Then I'll suggest something to you.

There's an implement in pretty constant use hereabouts that would do just that--a salmon gaff!" The two police officials started--the doctor nodded his head.
"Aye, and that's a sensible remark," said he.

"A salmon gaff would just do it." He turned to Chisholm with a sharp look.

"You were saying this man was suspected of poaching ?" he asked.