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Show Big Ape at Large in San Francisco Causes Hysterics San Francisco, Sept. 22. Consternation Con-sternation reigns In homes in the vicinity of a local amusement park, and" the death rate among canaries has arisen by leaps and louuds since the escape two days ago of a big ape named Jacques. The animal js haunting the roofs of the Delghlor-. hood, sUaiing into windows at night tn drag the singing birds from their cages and devour them. Unavailing efforts to capture him have been made bv the park employes em-ployes and police, and the order for hia execution has now gone forth. The patrolmen on the beats thereabouts there-abouts are flngeriDg their revolvers with thoughts of slaughter in their minds, for the edict has beu Issued that Jacq.ies bo shot on sight. Half a dozen women have been driven Into hysterics by waking In the night to discover the ugly beast swinging in at their windows, and yesterday a detail of police marched and countermarched over the roofs for hours in an effort to trap him. Because of their failure and the increase in-crease In the number f pranks in which the ape has rtgured. the shoot-on-slght order has been clven. |