about three o'clock
The history of the outbreak is a mystery . The nucleus of the crowd certainly came from an Anti-Boomfood meeting in Hyde Park organised by extremists of the Caterham party , but there seems no one in the world who actually first proposed , no one who ever first hinted a suggestion of the outrage at which so many people assisted . It is a problem for M. Gustave le Bon -- a mystery in the psychology of crowds . The fact emerges that about three o'clock on Sunday afternoon a remarkably big and ugly London crowd , entirely out of hand , came rolling down Thursday Street intent on Bensington 's exemplary death as a warning to all scientific investigators , and that it came nearer accomplishing its object than any London crowd has ever come since the Hyde Park railings came down in remote middle Victorian times . This crowd came so close to its object indeed , that for the space of an hour or more a word would have settled the unfortunate gentleman 's fate . The first intimation he had of the thing was the noise of the people outside . He went to the window and peered , realising nothing of what impended .