twelve o'clock of the
morning of August 22nd
The name of a shoemaker in a street of Palma was given as corroboration . The second letter , which had brought Hillyard post-haste off the sea into Barcelona , was only three days old . Once more Pontiana Tabor had been the bearer of bad news . José Medina had been seen entering the German Consulate in Barcelona , between eleven and twelve o'clock of the morning of August 22nd . Hillyard was greatly troubled by these two letters . `` We can put José Medina out of business , of course , '' he reflected . For José Medina 's tobacco factories were built at a free port in French territory .