twenty minutes after five
`` She saw him then plainly enough to remember him , and not to confound him with another . Tall , with long hair , a curled blond beard , and dressed like a gentleman , not like a poor man . The curtains were drawn . It was fifteen or twenty minutes after five . And it was at this same moment that Caffie was butchered by this false upholsterer , who evidently had only drawn the curtains so that he might kill Caffie in security , and not imagining that some one should see him doing a deed that denounced him as the assassin as surely as if he had been surprised with the knife in his hand . On reading the description of Florentin in the newspapers when he was arrested , Madame Dammauville believed the criminal was found -- a tall man , with long hair and curled beard . There are some points of resemblance , but in the portrait published in the illustrated paper that she received , she did not recognize the man who drew the curtains , and she is certain that the judge is deceived .