Quoted anonymous figures in narrative reporting are often the narrator.

Evidence

In other instances—when John J. Riley spoke in the elevator with a “member of the gallery,” for example, or when Schlichtmann, dining with an “acquaintance,” encountered Teresa for the last time—I was the unnamed party. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 3171

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which other apparently anonymous walk-ons across the book are actually Harr? Worth going back and auditing every ‘acquaintance’ and ‘friend’ in the trial chapters.
• SEED: Angle: an essay on the anonymous source as camouflage — how reporters erase themselves from scenes they helped make.