eleven o'clock
He was `` poor Mr. Jones , '' who had lost his son , and , worse still , his eighty acres of grass , and he was also `` that fellow Jones , '' that enemy to the Landleague , whom it behoved all patriotic Irishmen to get the better of and to conquer . Florian had been murdered on the 30th of August , which was a Tuesday , and the trial had been postponed until Friday , the 2nd of September . It was understood that the boy was to be buried at Headford , on Saturday , the 3rd ; but , nevertheless , the father was in the assize town on the Friday . He was in the town , and at eleven o'clock he took his place in the Crown Court . He was a man who was still continually summoned as a grand juror , and as such had no difficulty in securing for himself a place . To the right of the judge sat the twelve jurors who had been summoned to try the case , and to the left was the grand jurors ' box , in which Mr. Jones took his seat early in the day . And Frank was also in the court , and had been stopped by no one when he accompanied his father into the grand jurors ' box .