three o'clock
`` Come on , boys ; we 'll bust the safe and find out whether they 've got any money or not . '' Some of those who had gained entrance to the bank came out by the side door , and this served to divert attention to Franklin Street for a moment . There were cries that a woman who had received her money had been robbed , and this increased the uproar . When Amzi took a last survey from his bank steps at three o'clock , some one yelled , `` Hello , Amzi ! '' A piece of brick flung with an aim worthy of a nobler cause whizzed past his head and struck the door-frame with a sharp thwack and blur of dust . Amzi looked down at the missile with pained surprise and kicked it aside . His clerks besought him to come in out of harm 's way ; and yet no man in Montgomery had established a better right than he to stand exactly where he stood and view contemporaneous history in the making .