I went to the Vagabond Motel and asked the clerk if she had called for an ambulance. I asked her for the phone, she was hysterical, she did relay the message to the desk officer. I told her to tell the desk that he ran east on the north side of the Vagabond and that he was armed with a Smith and Wesson model 60. I then laid on the floor to wait for the ambulance. I was laying there, inventorying my body.
Serious injuries bring about strange thoughts.
At the base of the back of my hand was a bullet hole that went through the palm, and then about two inches below my right wrist, there was a bullet hole, exiting on the other side of my forearm. I was still conscious, I knew what was going on, I was not coughing blood. I always had heard and read that liver injuries are very painful. I thought that I must have escaped the liver, lung and heart injuries. O fficer Salzman was the first officer on the scene, he stepped into the lobby, like he was taking a report, clipboard and all.