ten o'clock
The search was fruitless . There was but one discovery : at the place where the man had fallen under Raymonde 's gun , they picked up a chauffeur 's cap , in very soft buff leather ; besides that , nothing . * * * * * The gendarmerie of Ouville-la-Riviere were informed at six o'clock in the morning and at once proceeded to the spot , after sending an express to the authorities at Dieppe with a note describing the circumstances of the crime , the imminent capture of the chief criminal and `` the discovery of his headgear and of the dagger with which the crime had been committed . '' At ten o'clock , two hired conveyances came down the gentle slope that led to the house . One of them , an old-fashioned calash , contained the deputy public prosecutor and the examining magistrate , accompanied by his clerk . In the other , a humble fly , were seated two reporters , representing the Journal de Rouen and a great Paris paper . The old chateau came into view -- once the abbey residence of the priors of Ambrumesy , mutilated under the Revolution , both restored by the Comte de Gesvres , who had now owned it for some twenty years .