about ten o'clock
He spent the first part of the evening in a saloon , where he related a part of his interview with the mill-owner , and said that he had finally kicked him out of the office . Still later in the evening he told several of the men that he was going to see Mr. Winter again , knowing that on certain evenings he was in the habit of staying down at the mill office until nearly half-past nine for special business . The mills were undergoing repairs , and Mr. Winter was away from home more than usual . That was the last that any one saw of the man until , about ten o'clock , some one going home past the mill office heard a man groaning at the foot of a new excavation at the end of the building , and climbing down discovered the man who had been to see Mr. Winter twice that afternoon . He had a terrible gash in his head , and lived only a few minutes after he was discovered . To the half-dozen men who stood over him in the saloon , where he had been carried , he had murmured the name of `` Mr. Winter , '' and had then expired . A very little adds fuel to the brain of men already heated with rum and hatred .