CAUGHT ON THE FLY
Two "Express" Reporters Catch a
Falling Printer on Their Backs.
All Badly Hurt.
Reporters Chamberlain and Bailey of the Express came near being killed this morning. At 3 o'clock they left the building on their way home from work. They heard a scream, a crash of windows, followed by a blow on the back of their necks which crushed Bailey's hat and knocked him sprawling. When they recovered from the shock they found a man lying on the sidewalk. Investigation showed that the man was a printer named Murphy who had been on a "booze" and gone to sleep on the windowsill of the second floor. He woke up about this time, kicked about and fell out of the window. Had he not fallen on the reporters he would undoubtedly have been killed on the flags below. As it was he nearly killed the reporters. They summoned an ambulance and took him to the Emergency hospital in unconscious condition. To-day they walk about with stiff necks. At 1 o'clock this afternoon it was reported at the Emergency hospital that Murphy had regained consciousness. The doctor stated that he had not determined definitely whether the skull was fractured or not, and was not prepared to say that the injuries would not prove fatal. Falling on the reporters, he said, just saved him.
The Buffalo Express, June 15, 1887