three o'clock
`` If he was too ill to go on to Southampton , he would , of course , be too ill to return to London , '' he said , with supreme indifference . Mr. Balderby , who was a good-hearted man , was distressed at the idea of Sampson Wilmot 's desolation ; an old man , stricken with sudden illness , and abandoned to strangers . Arthur Lovell was silent : he sat a little way apart from the two others , watching Henry Dunbar . At three o'clock the inquest commenced . The witnesses summoned were the two Irishmen , Patrick Hennessy and Philip Murtock , who had found the body in the stream near St. Cross ; Mr. Cricklewood , the surgeon ; the verger , who had seen and spoken to the two men , and who had afterwards shown the cathedral to Mr. Dunbar ; the landlord of the George , and the waiter who had received the travellers and had taken Mr. Dunbar 's orders for the dinner ; and Henry Dunbar himself . There were a great many people in the room , for by this time the tidings of the murder had spread far and wide . There were influential people present , amongst others , Sir Arden Westhorpe , one of the county magistrates resident at Winchester .