midnight
The dead horse in Minetta Lane might have been an Indian mound in miniature . An occasional drunken man or woman , exuding loathsome , broken sentences , reeled past Officer Foley who stood in the shadows opposite Luigi 's house . He was joined silently and one at a time by half a dozen other men . Just before midnight , a woman slipped in at the front door . And on the stroke of twelve , Foley gave a whispered order . The group of officers crossed the street and one of them put a shoulder against the door which yielded with a groan . When the door of the large room on the second floor burst open , Nucky threw down his playing cards and sprang for the window .