one o'clock
Then he became calmer , returned home , entered the house with a latch key , and went to bed without waking any of the inmates . On going to bed , he observed that his watch marked one o'clock . An intelligent juror . `` You must have passed a large number of people in the streets between eleven and one o'clock . Did you see no one whom you knew ? '' `` No one ; but at a corner some distance from here , -- I could not say what corner , -- I noticed a policeman sitting on a barrel in front of a grocery , smoking . He was a short , fat man , and his legs hardly reached to the pavement .