midnight
Grant nodded . The car moved on and Grant and his friends pressed through the throng to the hall where the Valley Council was waiting . There Grant stood and read what he had written . It ran thus : `` For the death by dynamite of the militiamen who perished at midnight in shaft No. 7 of the Wahoo Fuel Company 's mines , I take full responsibility . I have assumed a leadership in a strike which caused these deaths . I shirk no whit of my share in this outrage . Yet I preached only peace .