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Show HOLIDAY SHOPPERS' JAM LIKELY FATAL FOR APE Hugo Monkey Struck by Car While Crossing Crowded Street in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 23. 'fBig Bon," a huge long-tailed Sumatra ape, had a very human experience today when ho got away from a "junglo show" on South Mnin street,, joined tho Christmas shoppers on tho stroet for a brief period of hilarity, finally collided with a stroet car aud wound up at a hospital with a fracturo of tho skull. Ben created quite a commotion when he first joined tho throng on tho stroet, and in tho midst of tho excitement started to run across tho thoroughfare. An oncoming car hit him, knocking him senseless, Tho apo was picked up and carried inlo a building, where an interne from a nearby hospital, with bandages and noodles, nttundod to his hurts. It is believed Ben will die. ( |