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Show WAS "TOO POOR TO BE HURT" Injured Street Sweope. Fatally Hurt, Struggles to Return to Hlo Work, but Death Clalrrs Him. Frederick Hlrkmer, a Btreet sweepor ' of Now Uocholle, N. Y "too poor to bo "laid up by an accident," lie Bald, was knocked unconscious when struck in the back in the Polham road by a motorcycle ridden by Frank Purdy of Port Chester. Ulrkmer, still unconscious, uncon-scious, was being lifted Into an ambulance, ambu-lance, when he regained his sendefl. struggled to his feet and staggered ' toward his broom. "Can't afford to bo hurt." he muttered. mut-tered. Purdy and a hospital surgeon forced I him Into tho ambulance. At tho tips- pltul his skull was found fractured. Ho was prepared for the operating tabic. A moment later ho sprang frdm bed, tore off tho bandages, and, .struggling; with an Interne, strove to reach .u. doorway. "I must go back," ho faltered. I Then ho fell unconscious and died. |