three o'clock
`` The trunks came from here , '' he said . `` They were lowered down in the dumb waiter to the cellar and then carried through the lot to Fifty-seventh street . `` I 'll leave the rest of this job to you , Patsy . Find out all you can and have as many witnesses as you can get together , at the superintendent 's office to-morrow afternoon , at three o'clock . We 're going to have a special examination into this case . '' The special examination began promptly at the hour named by Nick . All the persons hitherto mentioned in connection with the case -- except , of course , the two victims -- were present .