10 P.M.
I was so startled and impressed by the fancied sound of a voice once familiar to me , that I walked on down the track , but could see no one . Soon the ` freight ' came along ; I stood aside until it passed , then returned to the station , and found the agent standing in the door . When he questioned me about my movements ; I deemed him impertinent ; but having nothing to conceal , stated the facts I have just recapitulated . You have been told that I intentionally missed the train ; that when seen at 10 P.M. in the pine woods , I was stealing back to my mother 's old home ; that I entered at midnight the bedroom where her father slept , stupefied him with chloroform , broke open his vault , robbed it of money , jewels and will ; and that when Gen ' l Darrington awoke and attempted to rescue his property , I deliberately killed him . You are asked to believe that I am ` the incarnate fiend ' who planned and committed that horrible crime , and , alas for me ! every circumstance seems like a bloodhound to bay me . My handkerchief was found , tainted with chloroform .