about nine
o'clock
Mr. Purdy went out , and Cowperwood called in his lawyers and his engineers . One Saturday afternoon , a week or two later , when the building in question had been vacated for the day , a company of three hundred laborers , with wagons , picks , shovels , and dynamite sticks , arrived . By sundown of the next day -LRB- which , being Sunday , was a legal holiday , with no courts open or sitting to issue injunctions -RRB- this comely structure , the private property of Mr. Redmond Purdy , was completely razed and a large excavation substituted in its stead . The gentleman of the celluloid cuffs and collars , when informed about nine o'clock of this same Sunday morning that his building had been almost completely removed , was naturally greatly perturbed . A portion of the wall was still standing when he arrived , hot and excited , and the police were appealed to . But , strange to say , this was of little avail , for they were shown a writ of injunction issued by the court of highest jurisdiction , presided over by the Hon. Nahum Dickensheets , which restrained all and sundry from interfering . -LRB- Subsequently on demand of another court this remarkable document was discovered to have disappeared ; the contention was that it had never really existed or been produced at all . -RRB-