1 A.M
said Wilson . ` Let me alone , the whole of you , ' answered Peters : ` I ai n't a child . ' These were the last intelligible words he ever spoke . He died shortly before 1 A.M. . He had been poisoned by a powerful dose of atropine . From that moment to the moment when the _ Boreal _ bore me down the Thames , all the world was a mere tumbling nightmare to me , of which hardly any detail remains in my memory . Only I remember the inquest , and how I was called upon to prove that Peters had himself injected himself with atropine .