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Show TORTURED IN MIDAIR Acrsbat ' Hangs by Teeth as Flames Lick Face and Body. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. Harry Cross-key, Cross-key, an "aerial acrobat," hung by his teeth sixty feet In midair while flames burned off his hair and his clothing and ate into his arms and legs. The sight of the terrible accident created a panic at the White City, Savin Rock, where Crowkey's "slide for life" as a "human torch" has been the feature of the vaudeville performances this week. Every night the man has slid, suspended sus-pended .by his teeth, from a wire stretched from a high tower to the top of the chutes. Over his shoulders tor the 330-foot slide has been-thrown an asbestos cloak, covered by a mesh wire net, holding waste, upon which was poured gasoline. As this was set on fire Crosekey slid the distance, the flames being blown from his face by his flight. His wire stuck and he was kept ten minutes In midair, but he knew that to drop would be sure death, so that he was forced to let the names1 burn themselves1 them-selves1 out before he was rescued. He will recover, but will be off the vaudeville vaude-ville stage the rest of this season. |