three o'clock Friday
`` Is that the young fellow that those sergeants have been hunting for ? '' asked one of the detectives . `` We managed to find out about him . He was in town early as three o'clock Friday , and he left on Number Six that night . '' `` Do you mean to tell me , '' said Sumter , gazing blankly at the speaker , `` that he was n't out here when -- this -- happened ? '' `` Not unless he had wings ! That train leaves at 11.40 . ''