three o'clock
Those who felt this said among themselves that they were acting the part not of soldiers but of bailiffs and men-in-possession . They had repeated some words of the dispute that had taken place before them and had left the rest to be guessed . Orders had been given prohibiting the printing of any placard without the authorization of the officer in command ; but every printer in Frankfort was ready to contravene the order , and at the very moment when Councillor Kugler threw the burgomaster 's rope into the scale , a thousand unseen and unknown hands were pasting upon the walls of Frankfort the following notice . `` At three o'clock our worthy burgomaster Fellner hanged himself and became the martyr of his devotion to the city of Frankfort . Citizens , pray for him . '' Benedict , on his part , had visited the printer of the `` Journal des Postes '' who engaged to furnish , within two hours , two hundred copies of the telegrams interchanged by the king and queen . He further undertook , on condition that the notices were not unduly large , to get them posted by his usual billstickers , who were ready to take the risk of officially announcing the good news to their neighbours .