Byline: Eleanor Stackhouse; 1889-12-13; The Chicago Tribune; pages 1-2
Report: Sensational: the Hidden History of America's "Girl Stunt Reporters"
Tags: posed as, healthcare, policing, Chicago
"I have had a free ride in the patrol-wagon. This statement will probably convey the impression that I have been doing something to be "taken up" after the fashion of teh usual occupants of the city's free conveyances. In reality I have done nothing worse than to fall suddenly ill on the street, a crime that 2,000 or 3,000 innocent people commit every year in the City of Chicago. If there had been a city ambulance I should have been entitled to ride in that. It happened in this way:"
Description:"'Nora Marks' feints on the street for the public's benefit." Eleanor Stackhouse, writing as Nora Marks, feints on the street to be picked up by the patrol-wagon.
Rights: Eleanor Stackhouse, "All Jolted Alike," The Chicago Tribune (newspapers.com paid subscription)
Additional Media
