half past nine
And it could not have been much later before the shot was heard . This shot had been fired between the hours of nine and ten , for it was during this hour only that Knoll was in the garden house and heard the shot . But it was not necessary to depend upon the tramp 's evidence alone to determine the exact hour of the shot . It must have been before half past nine , or otherwise the janitor of No. 1 , who came home at that hour and lay awake so long , would undoubtedly have heard a shot fired so near his domicile , in spite of the noise occasioned by the high wind . There would have been sufficient time for Mrs. Bernauer to have reached the place of the murder between the putting out of the lamp and the firing of the shot . But perhaps she may have rested quietly in her room ; she may have been only the inciter or the accomplice of the deed . But at all events , she knew something about it , she was in some way connected with it .