midnight
During the day he appointed some deputies to help him maintain order . At about ten o'clock I shut up the barn , put out my lantern , and sat down in a little room in one corner which was used for an office . The town was noisy , but nobody came near the barn , which was back of the hotel and out of sight from the street . Some time after midnight I heard low voices outside and crept to a small open window . I could make out the forms of some men under a shed back of a store across a narrow alley . Soon I heard two shots in the street , and then a man came running through the alley with another right after him . As the first passed , a man stepped out from under the shed .