New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-18
LIONESS KILLED;
POLICEMAN SHOT
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from behind the curtain. One by one
they leaped over the ducki. d, musicians
and cat-jumped their devious way
through the crowd.
Probably two hundred persons in the
audience were brushed by the lions in
their fight. Alice alone of the six won
her way through the crowd to the
street There was veritable jam of
shrieking, trampling humanity at the
door of the theatre. but in some man
ner a massage was formed for the lion
ess.
Alice paused a moment to look at
busy seth ST., and seth st. paused the
fraction of q moment to look at Alice.
II saw all il wanted to n the smallest
fraction of time. In an instant the
street was deserted, save for de-
spondent looking man, who had Just
/ emerged from a saloon munching a dill
/ pickle. and the driver of brewery
/ truck, who was busy hosting barrels.
Offered Alice a Fill Pickle.
/ Alice sidled up TO the respondent
.
the pickle coaxingly. Just as Alice
was about TO yield to his Establishments
and try the dill flavor, the driver of the
/ brewery truck caught sight of her, and
| whipped the blanket from his horse
| fair on the lioness. He hasn't found
| the blanket yet.
With the blanket trailing behind her.
Alice trotted north on Third av., while
a multitude damned the street behind
| her. The door of 1882 Third av. stood
omen. The darkness of the hallway
, was inviting, and Alice darted inside
and padded up the stairs.
The stairs led TO the studio of A.
Chaser, a photographer. Mr.. Chaser
was taking the picture of baby whose
proud mother stood by. The door was
aiar. Hearing footsteps on the stairs,
/ Mr.. Chaser looked out, square into the
face of Alice. 1t was startling ex-
perience as Mr.. CHASER afterward ad-
mitted. He closed the door and barred
il with settee. Then he stuck his
head out the window and yelled for
the police. while the baby crowed with
delight and its mother went into hys
terics. Alice went on.
On the fourth floor Mrs. Fannie
CHASER had Mrs. Rachel Cherzow, of
224 East 10th ST., to tea. The door
was ajar. Alice looked in on them.
In some miraculous manner the
crowd had got out of the theatre with
out seriously injuring any one. The
doors and iron gates at the entrance
were slammed behind them and police
men and trainers set to work TO hunt
down the five lions within.
"Bilr" Snyder Sent For.
30 Fo1
Park for "Bill" Snyder, head keeper
of the zoo. Reserves, ambulances and
/ fremen came Gathering up. Eighty
sixth st. was jammed from one side to
/ the other, and it was some time before
/ the police could clear way for the
streetcars.
A score Of policemen, among them
Glenn, Craig, Keavney, Murphy, Mas
| kiel, Shriner and Winter, started on
Alice's trail. In the lead were Patrol
man Stone and Herman Schmidt, of SO
East End av., who had taste for lion
hunting. They bore a lasso.
Alice was still regarding the two
women drinking tea, who had not seen
her. Just as Craig was attempting TO
conciliate Alice by petting her, while
Stone and Schmidt prepared to slip
their moose over her head Mrs. Chaser
and Mrs. Cherzow caught sight of the
animal. Neither Mrs. Chaser nor Mrs.
Cherzow like lions, and, besides, there
was a canary in the room.
Scat" they cried, and slammed the
door
Thus rebuffed, and ignorant of the
force in her rear, Alice started precipi
lately down stairs. The stairs were
full of policemen and other lion hunt
ers. They began TO shoot, while Stone
and Schmidt, who had balanced on the
stair rail the better to moose the
lioness, tumbled headlong into the
crowd
Alice fed to the extreme end Of the
narrow hall of the fourth floor and
crouched against the wall. In her
fight she raked her claws across the
hand Of Craig.
Sergeant Glenn Is Shot.
Sergeant Glenn and two others ad-
vanced cautiously down the hall. Keav-
ney, standing on the stairs, grasped
the spinhes of the stair rail with his
left hand and crooked his right arm
around to level his revolver at the
lioness. Alice drew a reproving paw
across his left hand and Keavney dis
charged his revolver Involuntary, "a
Ms HiunClcS COHtIdCltu WIN PAIN.
Seeing Keavney and Craig dripping
blood, while the cries of the photog-
rapher limited at still more dire
tragedy below, the patrolmen aban-
doned all idea of capturing the lioness
alive and cut loose with their revolvers.
Bullets came in showers from all d.
rections. Sergeant Glen fell as one
pierced his back.
In the murk Alice roared and
coughed. Just as Glen fell she sprung
over his body and made one last at
tempt TO descend She passed directly
beneath Patrolman Alfred Winter who,
with one foot on the balustrade and
the other braced against the wall,
straddled the stairs.
Another volley in her face turned the
lioness again. This time she mounted
the stairs painfully and Winter. from
his vantage point. put six bullets into
her head and chest. Alice reached the
top step and died.
Back in the theatre forty women who
had sought refuge in the women's
/ dressing room on the S5th st. side of
the building had attracted the atten-
tion Of fremen of Engine %. Under
Captain Ruddy's direction ladders were