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Show WAS "TOO POOR TO BE HURT" Injured Street Sweepe. Fatally Hurt, Struggles to Return to His Work, but Death Clairrs Him. Frederick Birkmer, a street sweeper of New Rochelle, N. Y., "too poor to be laid up by an accident," he said, was knocked unconscious when struck in the back in the Pelham road by a motorcycle ridden by Frank Purdy of Port Chester. Birkmer, still unconscious, uncon-scious, was being lifted into an ambulance, ambu-lance, when he regained his senses, struggled to his feet and staggered toward his broom. "Can't afford to be hurt," he muttered. mut-tered. Purdy and a hospital surgeon forced him into the ambulance. At the hospital hos-pital his skull was found fractured. He was prepared for the operating table. A moment later he sprang from bed, tore off the bandages, and, struggling with an interne, strove to reach a doorway. "I must go back," he faltered. Then he fell unconscious and died. |