about eleven o'clock in the evening
* * * * * On the date indicated in the report , then , the city of Liverpool and the whole country were agitated by the news of a terrible murder . On the road-side near Everton the dead body of a Mr. Henderson , an eminent banker , had been found , not far from his own residence . The discovery had been made at about eleven o'clock in the evening by some passers-by . Upon examination a wound was found in the back of the head which had been caused by a bullet . His watch and purse were still in their places , but his pocket-book was gone . Clasped in one of the hands was a newspaper , on the blank margin of which were some red letters , rudely traced , and looking as though they had been written with blood .