eight o'clock
There were new witnesses upon this day , people who testified to having been in the neighbourhood of the grove , and in the grove itself , upon that fatal afternoon and evening . Other labourers , besides the two Irishmen , had passed beneath the shadow of the trees in the moonlight . Idle pedestrians had strolled through the grove in the still twilight ; not one of these had seen Joseph Wilmot , nor had there been heard any cry of anguish , or wild shrieks of terror . One man deposed to having met a rough-looking fellow , half-gipsy , half-hawker , in the grove between seven and eight o'clock . Arthur Lovell questioned this person as to the appearance and manner of the man he had met . But the witness declared that there was nothing peculiar in the man 's manner . He had not seemed confused , or excited , or hurried , or frightened .