eight o’clock
I already had in my possession , made upon leaves cut from my pocket diary , some excellent fingerprints of Marlowe 's which he had made in my presence without knowing it . I had shown him the leaves , asking if he recognized them ; and the few seconds during which he had held them in his fingers had sufficed to leave impressions which I was afterwards able to bring out . By six o'clock in the evening , two hours after the jury had brought in their verdict against a person or persons unknown , I had completed my work , and was in a position to state that two of the five large prints made on the window-glasses , and the three on the bowl , were made by the left hand of Marlowe ; that the remaining three on the window and the two on the drawer were made by his right hand . By eight o'clock I had made at the establishment of Mr. H. T. Copper , photographer , of Bishopsbridge , and with his assistance , a dozen enlarged prints of the finger-marks of Marlowe , clearly showing the identity of those which he unknowingly made in my presence and those left upon articles in his bedroom , with those found by me as I have described , and thus establishing the facts that Marlowe was recently in Manderson 's bedroom , where he had in the ordinary way no business , and in Mrs. Manderson 's room , where he had still less . I hope it may be possible to reproduce these prints for publication with this dispatch . At nine o'clock I was back in my room at the hotel and sitting down to begin this manuscript . I had my story complete .