one o'clock
Reporters from local papers , and one or two who represented the London press , turned up , their press-cards as tickets of admittance . Petrie was stationed at the door to waylay casual strangers , but any who offered possible light upon the matter , eye-witnesses or otherwise , were allowed to enter . It was astonishing how many people there were who confessed to having `` seen things '' connected with the whole distressing affair . By one o'clock almost everyone was in place . At a quarter past , ` Toinette Brellier arrived , dressed in black and with a heavy veil shrouding her pallor . She was accompanied by her uncle . Cleek met them in the hall .