R.—Do you know who he is?
P.—No, I couldn’t find out his name.
R.—Was he badly hurt?
P.—I guess he was. His head was cut behind, and he hadn’t come to when the ambulance took him to the hospital.
R.—How did it happen?
P.—I don’t know. The first I knew a kid came running up to me and told me a man was hurt in the subway. When I got down there, they had him on the platform, and a crowd was standing around him. I saw the old man was hurt pretty bad, so I telephoned for St. Mary’s ambulance. We put some water on his face, but he didn’t come to. When the ambulance doctor came he said he was alive all right.
R.—How did he fall off the platform?
P.—I don’t know; I guess he fainted.
R.—Thanks; I’ll go down and see the ticket chopper.
The reporter thereupon goes down into the subway station. The ticker chopper, he finds, has just come on duty and does not know anything about the accident. He therefore decides to inquire of the girl in charge of the news-stand. The conversation between her and the reporter is as follows: