one o'clock
Two or three notes were to be paid that day , and the managing-clerk began to feel uneasy . The bank and check books were in a private drawer in the fireproof of which Mr. Freeling had the key . So there was no means of ascertaining the balances in bank . At one o'clock it was thought best to break open the private drawer and see how matters stood . Freeling kept three bank-accounts , and it was found that on the day before he had so nearly checked out all the balances that the aggregate on deposit was not over twenty dollars . In looking back over these bank-accounts , it was seen that within a week he had made deposits of over fifty thousand dollars , and that most of the checks drawn against these deposits were in sums of five thousand dollars each . At three o'clock he was still absent .