five minutes past
seven o'clock
The robe was over him , and his face was hidden . His medicine case lay beneath him ; the phials were crushed to splinters . Life was extinct when he was discovered . His watch had stopped at five minutes past seven o'clock . It so happened that he was not immediately identified , though our reporter could not learn the reason of this extraordinary mischance . By some unpardonable blunder , the body of the distinguished and favourite physician was taken to the Morgue ' '' -- `` That accounts for it , '' said Jason . -- '' ` Was taken to the Morgue , ' '' read on Mr. Brake with agitated voice . ''