five o'clock
Then , too , there is the thought that they may not be safe elsewhere . In such a state of mind men become susceptible to emotion . A word can then sway a multitude . From five o'clock , when the first bulletin appeared , until the announcement of the killing of Mr. Drew , a period of two hours and a half , the list has grown to frightful proportions . From Chicago comes the report that Tingwell Fang , the Beef King , has been killed in his private office by the explosion of a dynamite bomb or some other infernal machine brought there by a man who for weeks had been transacting important business with Mr. Fang . The explosion entirely demolished the office , and when the police succeeded in getting at the bodies it was found that the bomb-thrower had paid for his deed with his life . In a bundle of papers which the man left in the outer office a note is found which gives his address as the Palmer House .