twelve o'clock noon
He never killed anybody save quiet and law-abiding fellow citizens who made no resistance , and the method he selected was to shoot them through the head . He seemed to feel that it was essential to his dignity thus to execute at least one human being every six months , and the extraordinary feature of his history was that he had never been convicted . The case that I was called upon to defend was this : Not having killed anybody for nearly a year and fearing to jeopardize his dual title of King of Mulberry Street and The Bravest Man , he put a forty-four calibre pistol in his pocket , donned his Sunday clothes and took a walk . The thoroughfare was crowded , the day bright and fair , the time twelve o'clock noon . Presently the oil merchant approached and The King , first glancing about him to make sure that he had a `` gallery , '' went up to him , placed the pistol at his head and fired . He was immediately arrested and indicted for murder . Now , twenty witnesses had seen him fire the fatal shot .