six o'clock
The least important of the two was the big fight between the Champion of the United States and the Would-be Champion , arranged to take place near Philadelphia ; the second was the Burrbank murder , which was filling space in newspapers all over the world , from New York to Bombay . Richard F. Burrbank was one of the most prominent of New York 's railroad lawyers ; he was also , as a matter of course , an owner of much railroad stock , and a very wealthy man . He had been spoken of as a political possibility for many high offices , and , as the counsel for a great railroad , was known even further than the great railroad itself had stretched its system . At six o'clock one morning he was found by his butler lying at the foot of the hall stairs with two pistol wounds above his heart . He was quite dead . His safe , to which only he and his secretary had the keys , was found open , and $ 200,000 in bonds , stocks , and money , which had been placed there only the night before , was found missing . The secretary was missing also .