midnight
There were reports of conversations with the clerk at the hotel ; with the call-boy ; with the waiter at table with all the witnesses , with the policeman , with the landlord -LRB- who wanted it understood that nothing of that sort had ever happened in his house before , although it had always been frequented by the best Southern society , -RRB- and with Mrs. Col. Selby . There were diagrams illustrating the scene of the shooting , and views of the hotel and street , and portraits of the parties . There were three minute and different statements from the doctors about the wounds , so technically worded that nobody could understand them . Harry and Laura had also been `` interviewed '' and there was a statement from Philip himself , which a reporter had knocked him up out of bed at midnight to give , though how he found him , Philip never could conjecture . What some of the journals lacked in suitable length for the occasion , they made up in encyclopaedic information about other similar murders and shootings . The statement from Laura was not full , in fact it was fragmentary , and consisted of nine parts of , the reporter 's valuable observations to one of Laura 's , and it was , as the reporter significantly remarked , `` incoherent '' , but it appeared that Laura claimed to be Selby 's wife , or to have been his wife , that he had deserted her and betrayed her , and that she was going to follow him to Europe . When the reporter asked : `` What made you shoot him Miss. .