about 9 P.M.
Then Alten gave it up . He had about decided to plead guilty in the Magistrate 's Court to disorderly conduct and all the rest of it ! That was preferable to being judged a liar , or insane . * * * * * And then , at about 9 P.M. on the evening of June 9 , the first of the mechanical monsters came stalking from the house on Patton Place -- the beginning of the revenge which Tugh had threatened when arrested . The policeman at the corner -- one McGuire -- turned in the first hysterical alarm . He rushed into a little candy and stationery store shouting that he had seen a piece of machinery running wild . His telephone call brought a squad of his comrades .