eight o'clock
No other time was set . But at half-past five George Brotherton saw a messenger boy going about , summoning men to a meeting . Then Brotherton found that the Law and Order League was sending for its members to meet in the Federal courtroom at half-past eight . He learned also that Judge Van Dorn would return on the eight o'clock train and expected to hear the Adams ' petition that night . So Brotherton knew the object of the meeting . In ten minutes Doctor Nesbit , Henry Fenn and Nathan Perry were in the Brotherton store . `` It means , '' said Fenn , `` that the mob is going after Grant to-night and that Tom knows it . ''