five o’clock
He opened his eyes and said distinctly , ` Mrs. Cutter is quite dead , gentlemen , and I am conscious . My affairs are in order . ' Then , Rudolph said , ` he let go and died . ' On his desk the coroner found a letter , dated at five o'clock that afternoon . It stated that he had just shot his wife ; that any will she might secretly have made would be invalid , as he survived her . He meant to shoot himself at six o'clock and would , if he had strength , fire a shot through the window in the hope that passersby might come in and see him ` before life was extinct , ' as he wrote . ` Now , would you have thought that man had such a cruel heart ? '