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Show l"Leap-the-Gap" Stunt Staged By Yeggs and Cops CHICAGO,, Sept. L. Hundreds of I pedcstralns wat.-hing the huge Jack ; knife bridge ;tt Mn hlcan avenue ijo n I Thursday to allow the passage of a steamer, witnessed a thrilling "leap-' "leap-' the-gap" rldr for, life by two auto-! 1 mobiles both Of Which leaped across the widening gap ol the bridge at rac- I Ing Speed , The thrill resulted from the ef- fort of Vincent 'Skimmer,? Drucci, an allegi ,1 safe blower, t.. e,-ape from an automobile driven by two pollce-, pollce-, men. Raring In his own car through ; the crowded boulevard, he was halted halt-ed by the rising bridge. The tWO blades of the great Jack knITe were' slowiy iislng 'rashlng through the gates asj 1 hough they were paper. Lruoel drove, hi ear up the Incllpe, ie.ij,eii the four-, foot gap and coasted down the other -Id. ..f the span. The detectives were, on his bee's and although the gap; was wide:-. n,o,- duplicated thetr quar-1 ry's performance and caught and ar-J I Tested h'm In the traffic jam on the other side of the bridge |