four o'clock
Nowadays , it is often necessary only that the pursuing craft possess sufficiently greater speed to overtake the easily located fugitive . As the `` Sudbury '' turned out into the open sea that little gunboat was in instant communication with Washington , and also with any wireless equipped ocean traveler up to nearly half way across the great Atlantic . At three o'clock the Navy Department at Washington reported to a gunboat out of sight of land that the last sighting of the supposed `` Juanita '' placed her on the same course as hitherto reported . At four o'clock came word that the Navy Department had had no new report as to the schooner by wireless . At five o'clock another wireless despatch was flashed through the air . Lieutenant Jack Benson , reading , discovered that the `` Juanita '' had again been sighted on the same course , headed for some port in the British West Indies . At 5:20 Ensign Eph Somers , port watch officer of the `` Sudbury , '' sent a marine orderly to report to Lieutenant Benson that a schooner 's topmasts were within sight .