“Every one in my body, I think,” replied the arch rogue. “Take me to some hospital; I must have cut myself. I feel the blood trickling down my leg.”
Tambourine Jack was sent to the nearest station house for an ambulance, and it soon arrived.
Carter accompanied his prisoner.
They went to the station house first, and then to the Hudson Street Hospital.
An officer was detailed to watch the injured prisoner.
Upon examining the patient, the surgeon on duty said that no bones had been broken.
Elmer Greer kept moaning all the while, and this led the physician to believe the man was injured internally.
Nick Carter was not to be taken in by shamming.
He really believed that his prisoner had suffered nothing worse than a bad shaking up, but he was humane enough to give Greer the benefit of the doubt.
The policeman who was to watch Elmer took a seat near the fellow’s cot.