three o'clock
At one o'clock it was thought best to break open the private drawer and see how matters stood . Freeling kept three bank-accounts , and it was found that on the day before he had so nearly checked out all the balances that the aggregate on deposit was not over twenty dollars . In looking back over these bank-accounts , it was seen that within a week he had made deposits of over fifty thousand dollars , and that most of the checks drawn against these deposits were in sums of five thousand dollars each . At three o'clock he was still absent . His notes went to protest , and on the next day his city creditors took possession of his effects . One fact soon became apparent -- he had been paying the rogue 's game on a pretty liberal scale , having borrowed on his checks , from business friends and brokers , not less than sixty or seventy thousand dollars . It was estimated , on a thorough examination of his business , that he had gone off with at least a hundred thousand dollars .