eleven o'clock
Securely tying them together , he placed them in the secret pocket which had been so recently rifled , and started to go downstairs , but found that the porter was right , he was locked in his room . After thumping at the door , without success , he remembered seeing a bell , which he rang lustily . After a few minutes a youth came to the door and turned the key . Worth , thus released , hastened down to discover that it was eleven o'clock in the forenoon . Within two hours a warrant for the arrest of James Thurston , alias James Thorne , was issued with a description of the watch and the amount of money stolen . A notice of reward was also issued and appeared at once in the newspapers . A general alarm was sent out by the Police Department , the railroad stations and steamboat landings were vigilantly watched , but without any results .