The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-18

just fallen on a troupe of six perform ing lions in the EIghty-sixth Street Theatre, just west of Third avenue. yesterday afternoon. The house was in darkness save for the spotlight S that played on male quartet when erom behind the curtain came Q, shriu wo1nan's scream and then the low enarl of a lion.
 Instantly the lights flashed on and as the audience half rose with a gasp shaggy head appeared above the box rail on the left side of the stage and lion bounded over With cries Of fear those in the audience turned and lied through exits. Beast after beast bounded into the throng until all six were running in fright up and down the aisles and into the ba1co- nies.
 All but one of the lions kept to. the, inside Of the theatre and were round ed up in the lobby Alice. the one that reached the street, sought safety in the hallway of 1882 Third avenue, leading to photographers studio. She was caught between the fire of twozsquads of policemen and rIddieo with bullets. ss
 Tn the fusfllade of lead that scared and clipped the stairs and hallway Sergeant Daniel Glenn was shot in the. back He was taken to Flower hos pital, where it was said Shis condition was critical but with that one excep- tion his most serious injuries were
 Every seat in the theatre, which aaoldg about 800 was filled, and in the rear of the orchestra at least 100 more persons were standing. The lions were the main attraction on the program Pictures of them posing on pedestals filled the lobby, where they were billed as sssix Man Eating Lions Under .fsVon1an.s Hypnotie Control" But the control of Mime Marie Andre Jailed apparently at the critical moment
 She had put her charges through their perfornancew without hitch end The curtain went down with each lion sitting calmly on a stand in the iron exhibition cage- The whip suappings Mme Andre took her curtain calls with a smile and then the audi 1enq9s relieved from the expectation of sse- anE something happen to her, settled bach to enjoy the less nerve racking perforunance of the Four Harris who. made harmony out of a song called sFol1ow the Crowd
 Back of the curtain something hap pened that grated on the sensitive, nerves of the 5unsIe beasts Hhey slunk into corner Of their cagf svgAte11ng their tai Is nefve eustx as inc shMrfng box in which they were re-s moved from the extEzbition cage was moved aup There are Eyvo or these boxes, each supposed to hold three car4 Tsir.1lc1s1ist, the keeper. climbed to che top of the cage to hold open the sliding doors when ito his amaze naent all six animals rushed forEard in compact mass, jaunIned against the narrow door Of the shifting box and showed it back so space was, left between the box and the cage, through which they IeaDed. was then that Mime. Andre screamed.
 
 the top Of the cage as the lions oircled- about the stage a few times and then fonnd the open door that led to the orchestra pit
 No one seemed to know after it was all over just what happened zAter that sirst snarline head showed up over the box rail No one waited to find out but it seemed that hons came from every direction out of boxes and over the footlighfs- The Four Harts took one look at the first animal to drop among the audience and then fed to the wings, their harmony forgotten
 The Hons became lost tn the panic aIev created. A heavy body bo1nd- ing against a man now and then sT1p- ped him and if ehe stopped at all i'm his headlong rush for an exit he saw very frightened animal scurrying through the mass of men and women Not a roar was heard. they were like a lot Of overgroWn kittens scared and 
 J crowd
 By aonde fortunate chance there was number Of dremen and policemen in the tIeater when the panic began Sergt- Thonnas Tracy, his round faca glistening with excitement, jumped up on the stage and tried to subdue the frightened crowd. Lieut.. Kauf and Detective Peter Cahiu picked women ward exits, with which the house was so we'll provided that every one but the police and the Hons was out in a 9aw minutes.
 With them had gone Alice. She had made beeIine down an aisle to the lobby and beat the crowd to the street by seconds. The noise and bus- Gle of East Eighty sixth street, a wide nnd busy thoroughfare, dazed her for A moment, and she loped slowly across to Breftfe11er's saloon on the corner of Third avenue and sat down on the sidewalk to think over the situation.
 Tt was at that moment that a per son who seemed to have been inbfb- Ing something that warmed his heart toward stray animals stopped beside iAlice and patted her on the head
 sNace dogg1e,s he said. ~Cold. ain't
 Alice looked at him in an injured way, got up and ambaed over to the self on her hind legs and Dawed at t1le door moment.
 Sounds of smashing glass came from within as patrons of the place re- alized that the huge body knocking for admission was not that of an over grown dog.
 Around into Third avenue Alice went next, where the driver of brewery wagon threw blanket over her head and made an effort to wrap her up in 1t A vigorous shake sent him s1in- ming into the open door of 1532 Third avenue aid up to the fourth floor, where is the Photographic studio Of IA be Chaser
 GIaser was about to take the picture of baby when he heard noise. in Inc hall and looked out to find him