nine o’clock
Some of these which were public conveyances and had come from a short distance in the country , stopped ; and the driver pointed to the gibbet with his whip , though he might have spared himself the pains , for the heads of all the passengers were turned that way without his help , and the coach-windows were stuck full of staring eyes . In some of the carts and waggons , women might be seen , glancing fearfully at the same unsightly thing ; and even little children were held up above the people 's heads to see what kind of a toy a gallows was , and learn how men were hanged . Two rioters were to die before the prison , who had been concerned in the attack upon it ; and one directly afterwards in Bloomsbury Square . At nine o'clock , a strong body of military marched into the street , and formed and lined a narrow passage into Holborn , which had been indifferently kept all night by constables . Through this , another cart was brought -LRB- the one already mentioned had been employed in the construction of the scaffold -RRB- , and wheeled up to the prison-gate . These preparations made , the soldiers stood at ease ; the officers lounged to and fro , in the alley they had made , or talked together at the scaffold 's foot ; and the concourse , which had been rapidly augmenting for some hours , and still received additions every minute , waited with an impatience which increased with every chime of St Sepulchre 's clock , for twelve at noon . Up to this time they had been very quiet , comparatively silent , save when the arrival of some new party at a window , hitherto unoccupied , gave them something new to look at or to talk of .