eleven o'clock
He dashed down the stairs and made for the nearest long distance wire . It was half an hour before they could connect with Springfield , only to learn that the Governor had left for Chicago and was expected to arrive there about noon . In the Death House Shay sat calmly waiting as the big clock ticked his life away that morning in the house of death at Joliet . At eleven o'clock , Hartigan received Belle 's telegram : `` We have found Squeaks . '' He rushed to the Sheriff with it . That officer was very sorry , but `` no one except the Governor had any right to order a stay . '' `` Why , sir , '' said Jim , `` you are not going to hang an innocent man , when here is proof of his innocence . ''