The Eagle Murder Case
Philo Vance · July 13, 1948 · 26 min · 4,501 words
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Much more with the guy we're carrying, is it, Doc? Ah, not too much, Steve.
Fracture the right arm and right ankle. I had more trouble with his wife and two partners. They wanted to ride along to the hospital in this ambulance. That's all I need, passengers. Yeah, who happened to the guy we got back?
Auto accident. He had his wife and two partners in the car and tried to wrap it around an elevated pillar. You're a funny guy. He fought against my giving him a hypodermic. Wonder why? No reason.
No good reason, that is. He kept saying, no hypo, please doctor, I'll be murdered before I get to the hospital if you give me a hypo. That's nothing though. The shock is scary, it brought on by the accident, that's all.
Wonder why a guy would think someone was gonna kill him? He didn't know what he was saying. He kept mumbling about no hypo right up to the time we closed the doors in the back.
Don't you remember? I remember him saying something but I didn't pay any attention. Well, here we are. Yeah. I'll have this backdoor open in a jiffy and our friend fixed up before he knows it.
He thought somebody was trying to murder him. E.W. doctor? Emergency ward, Steve. Sure. What else could it be? Well, I'll hop in and grab the top part of the stretcher. Now what? Well, stay right here and get ready to grab it, Steve.
I'm ready. Shove it down. Oh, Steve. Steve. Yeah, Doc, what is it, Doc? We don't mark this case, E.W., for the emergency ward. He's got a knife stuck on his right side. He's D.O.A. What?
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