About six o'clock
`` Yes , he has been threatened again and again . He was over at Huddersfield yesterday afternoon ; he started from the ` George ' on his way back at half past five . It seems that his friend Eastwood , of Slaithwaite , knowing how often his life had been threatened , offered to ride back with him , and though Horsfall laughed at the offer and rode off alone , Eastwood had his horse saddled and rode after him , but unfortunately did not overtake him . `` About six o'clock Horsfall pulled up his horse at the Warren House Inn at Crossland Moor . There he gave a glass of liquor to two of his old work people who happened to be outside , drank a glass of rum and water as he sat in the saddle , and then rode off . A farmer named Parr was riding about a hundred and fifty yards behind him . As Horsfall came abreast of a plantation Parr noticed four men stooping behind a wall , and then saw two puffs of smoke shoot out .