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Show LIS ESGAPE FROM TIERS 111 AJHEATER Five of the Beasts Jump From Stage Into Audience Audi-ence and Precipi tate Panic ONE GAINS STREET, IS TINALLY KILLED Several Persons Injured and Many Women Terribly Frightened, Police Kept Busy By International News Sen cc NEW YORK Doc 1 Pi a Ions escaped from the Eight v s xth St root theater stage this afternoon throning the audience into a panic and knock mg down about 100 persons, two of whom v. ere so badlj injured that they were taken to a hospital Others in jured were able to go home Sergeant camuel Glynn was shot and seriously vtounded by policemen who nere trying to kill the hons. j Policeman James M Cra g was mangled on the left hand Policeman Ed ard Kegney was mangled about the bead and shot in the right hand It was reported that one woman had been terribly clawed by one of the lions before it reached the street The theater is a motion picture and audeville house and It required re serves from three precincts to hold the immense crowd in check. Ambulances were called from the Reception and Flower hospitals. The animals got out of their cage just as their pattofth. piUf(uniaite in the thtnter was eon traded. They should have returned to their separate cages u the wings, but, instead, bounded down Into the orchestra. Tries to Quiet udicnce. At the tune a musical quartette known on the stage as ' The Four Harts had just eome on the stage. When the lions leaped down Into the orchestra the s ngers went on with their act in an eifort to cuiet tne panic stneken audience The comedian of the quartette began dancing a lively live-ly j g The theater audience piled pell moll out of the eide entrances of the theater, the-ater, the bons having dashed through the hou3c and out into the lobby Four of the animals did not leave the build ing and were corralled in the lobby for half an hour before the police reserves re-serves and theater employees could drive them back to their cages Many shots were fired at them in the lobby to keep them temf ed The f fth animal dashed for the street It rushed east on E ghty sixth street to Th rd avenue. At One Hun dred and Thirty second avenue the am mal el mbed the stairwaj and walked into Glaser s photograph gallerv There were a number of persons sitt ng in the reception room waiting to have the r photographs taken as the lion walked in on them They rushed to the roof and slammed down the trap door Woman Promptly Taints. A woman s tt ng for her portra t fa nted and two emplojees in the stu d 0 attempting to jump over the 1 on which barred the s ngle exit were bad lv clawei The lion made himself at home ln the photograph galleT sniffed around a Htt e and then returned to the street. By this t me tl e reserves from the i.ast Ushty eighth street station had arrived and the po ce be an firing at the animal which by now bad become savage and was at tempting to run away Flftj four shots were fired Into his body before be was kil ed I was sitting In the second row of the orchestra said Fred Jacoby of 44 East E ghtv second street and four singing corned ans were on the stage Suddenly I heard a cry from bel ind the s enes and I thought there v.as a fire So I got out of my seat and went through the stage door s I did so three 1 ons b n ped into me and knoci ed me down But thej didn t hurt me Thej went Into the orchestra Then I heard the most ter ible cries fron the women and children as e erybody tried to get out of the p ace at once. Girls and Women Faint I rushed Into the theater and 1 ol lered that there waa not anv danger that the Ions were old and wouldat bite But the people paid no attent on to me and I guess aoout twenty gir s and women fainted in al parts of the hThe 1 ns were be n" exhib ted by a woman t i ing herself Madame Andre. She had six ions In a 1 but one of them do ri elv leaped back Into h s cage when the act was concluded It was vh le an at tendant was locking the cage that the other fve animals oeclded to make their break for libertv 1, j result of the escape of the Hons the oollce arrested Madame Andre and her two as s an s C A Turnqu Bt and George H Hamilton. The cl arge against each of the prls one s s felon ous assau t They are harged with "being in c arge of ani ma 3 that escaped and runn ng -it arge inju ed the aboie persons throug their ca e essness |