About five in the morning
`` This account rather alarmed us , and we continued to search for him until night fell , when Elizabeth conjectured that he might have returned to the house . He was not there . We returned again , with torches ; for I could not rest , when I thought that my sweet boy had lost himself , and was exposed to all the damps and dews of night ; Elizabeth also suffered extreme anguish . About five in the morning I discovered my lovely boy , whom the night before I had seen blooming and active in health , stretched on the grass livid and motionless : the print of the murderer 's finger was on his neck . `` He was conveyed home , and the anguish that was visible in my countenance betrayed the secret to Elizabeth . She was very earnest to see the corpse . At first I attempted to prevent her ; but she persisted , and entering the room where it lay , hastily examined the neck of the victim , and clasping her hands exclaimed , ' O God !