nine in the morning
As the killing progressed , they threw their victims , the living , dead and wounded , into the Trouillas Tower , some sixty feet , down into the pit . The men were thrown in first , and the women later . The assassins wanted time to violate the bodies of those who were young and pretty . At nine in the morning , after twelve hours of massacre , a voice was still heard crying from the depths of the sepulchre : `` For pity 's sake , come kill me ! I can not die . '' A man , the armorer Bouffier , bent over the pit and looked down . The others did not dare .