eleven o’clock
It was thus clear that Cranley , himself a great traveller , was possessed of the rare and perilous drug . The medical evidence having been heard , and confirmed in its general bearing by various experts , and Barton having stood the test of a severe cross-examination , William Winter was called . There was a flutter in the Court , as a pale and partly paralyzed man was borne in on a kind of litter , and accommodated in the witness-box . `` Where were you , '' asked the counsel for the prosecution , when the officer had sworn the witness , `` at eleven o'clock on the night of February 7th ? '' `` I was on the roof of the _ Hit or Miss _ tavern . '' `` On which part of the roof ? '' `` On the ledge below the dormer window at the back part of the house , facing the waste ground behind the plank fence . ''