midnight
Thus -- Jones ate his supper that night , a mild and well-disposed individual . During the afternoon before , he had read prayers for the soul of Schwartz , in whose departure he may or may not have had a part . I am inclined to think not , Jones construing his mission as being one to remove the wicked and the oppressor , and Schwartz hardly coming under either classification . He was at the wheel from midnight until four in the morning on the night of the murders . At certain hours we believe that he went forward to the forecastle-head , and performed , clad in his priestly robe , such devotions as his disordered mind dictated . It is my idea that he looked , at these times , for a heavenly signal , either a meteor or some strange appearance of the heavens . It was known that he was a poor sleeper , and spent much time at night wandering around .