three o'clock
`` It is possible to get direct evidence in regard to Captain Lloyd 's capture of that despatch . You forget , sir , that he was accompanied by Belden , one of Colonel Young 's scouts . Mr. Judge Advocate , you are directed by the court to telegraph to General Sheridan 's headquarters , requesting that the said Belden be detached and sent back to Washington to testify before this court ; or , if that is not possible , that his deposition in the matter be taken and forwarded to us . It is three o'clock , gentlemen ; the court will adjourn until to-morrow morning . '' The court convened promptly at nine o'clock the next morning . The first witness summoned by the judge advocate was Doctor Ward . After the usual preliminaries had been gone through with , he testified that he had reached Mrs. Lane 's boarding house five minutes after Symonds ' message had been delivered to him .