The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-18
ESCAPE IN THEATRE AND PANIC FOLLOWS; MANY
 POLICEMEN HURT IN HUNT

The photographer hurled himself back into his studio, slammed the door and put chairs and a bench against It. Then he ran to the window and yell ed for help.
 By this time the reserves of the East Sixty-seventh and East Eighty eighth street stations had reached the scene and a dozen policemen ran up- stairs to find Alice crouched snarling at the end of the hallway. Poiice- man Stone made several intellectual attempts to 1asso her. which provok- ed her into a spring toward the stairs that scattered b1uecoats righ and left. With one accord they drew. their re- volvers and sent volley after volley of bullets crashing into the walls and stairway.
 Stung by bullets --e lion bounded down toward the third floor only to be met by a vol1ey that drove her back to the head of the stairs. Policemen Craig, Maskell, Schw eiper and Clancy, with Sergt. Glenn, were in the squad on the third floor. and straddIing the stairs at the fourth floor was Alfred Winter, who finally gave the Hon her death wounds by emptying his revo1v- CT into her at close range.
 When the smoke had cleared away the stairs and halIways looked as if a battle had been waged there. The dead lion had rolled to the floor below
  lay with a bullet in his back. How 1Ie got it or who shot him, the police do not know.
 The walls and doors leading of. the railways of both the third and fourth floors were riddIed with holes, plaster had fallen and miscellaneous collec- ton of odds and ends had fallen from som eWhere and lay scattered all oyer the floors. After 1t was all over po- ltcemen were wondering why more of them had not been hit in the rain of lead that flew about.
 In the meantime policemen, led by Turnquist, were Hon hunting in the theatre. They found two of the ani- mals crouching in the balcony, two snuggled close to a radiator in the rear of the lobby and another one sku1king under the orchestra chairs.
 Armed with dremenss hooks the po- lcemen started to prod the animals into the lobby. Mime Andre and her husband, Ricardo, tried to superintend the job from box but Mime. Andre had not recovered sufnciently from her fright. The lions were finally rounded up and Turnquist, with the aid of a whip. reduced them to meek submits sion. They seemed to be glad 1t was all over.
 Tn the audience had been Charles B. E8ohuaan. baker out or speoflzs<sof IA
 
 one of the few who remained to assist in the roundup. When the shifting boxes had been removed out so the animals could be driven into, them Hoffman was asked to get ub On top of the cage and hold. open the door. Glad of any kind Of a job he did so and nervously stuck to it until the i've animals had been herded in and locked up.
 In the meantime a crowd that jam med Third avenue and Eighty sixth street and nearly swept policemen from their feet in their eagerness to see what was going on had collected. The excitement spread to Eighty-hf street when some women who had taken refuge in the women's dressing. rom opened the windows and shouted for help.
 Capt. Mike Buddy of Engine No 22, whose windows are nearly opposite the rear of the theatre, saw them and ran 8 ladder up to the dressing room. Then with the aid of his men he helped fifteen or twenty frightened women to the street.
 Glenn was the only one seriously injured as result, of the lions es- cape.
 Mark McDermott of 511 East Eighty-fourth street was taken to- Flower hospital to have some scratch-
  in one of the front aisle seats and. dropped to the floor as the first lion came vaulting over the rail. The anil nal dropped almost on McDermott and a hind foot, spurping the. pros trate man, inflicted the gashes
 Policeman James M. Craig. who was in the battle on the stairs, had hold of a banister when the lion in passing struck at his hand and scratched it. One or two women, whose names the police did not get, were bruised in the rush to get out of the theatre, but hurried away quickly to their homes.
 When the excitement had died down about g o'clock, the police arrested Mme Andre, Carl TurnquiSt, the keeper. and George H. Hamilton of 31 West Sixty-fourth street, who booked the attraction at the theatre. The first two were held on a charge of permitting wild animals to escape from a cage in a careless manner.'' The lions were owned by Mrs Emma Ferari of 156 West Eighty fourth street The one that was shot, Alice,
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