Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-18
SIX LIONS ESCAPE AND CAUSE
PANIC IN new YORK THEATRE

One of the beasts caught up with Mark
McDermott while he was hurrying down
an aisle, so he lay down. The animal
clawed him on the head and his wound
appeared to be the most dangerous that
any of the beasts inflicted He was
taken to hospital.
Firemen Called Out
The last of the audience to leave the
theatre were several women found coop
ed up in second floor dressing room.
They signalled firemen from nearby en-
CINE house, who carried them down lad
ders to safety.
A throng was gathered outside the
theatre when Alice emerged and trotted
slowly across the street. One story was
that when she poked her head into a
saloon a man came up and patted her.
At the corner of seth street and Third
avenue she calmly sat down.
Enter, Ten Brave Policemen
A crowd In Third avenue began to
shout and 10 policemen with revolvers
drawn came rushing across the street
from the theatre toward her. She turned
north in Third avenue, crossed the thor
oughfare and fed into an apartment
house.
Photographer Sees EN-
Abraham CHASER, photographer, was
working on the first floor of the building
when he heard peculiar noise in the
hall. He opened the door to investigate
and stared into the face of the lioness.
Slamming the door quickly he shouted
for help.
a n CT a
bounded up a fight. There two women
peered from a doorway and seeing the
animal shrieked and slammed the door,
Again Alice fed, this time to the third
floor, only to cause more screams from
residents of the apartment. When the po-
lice arrived Alice was at the top of
small stairway seeking egress to the
roof.
A Fierce Battle
For more than 10 minutes thereafter
there waged in the narrow hallway a
fierce battle between men and beast.
Shot after shot-30 in all--were fred into
the now raging animal. Up and down
the stairway she raced, growing and
snarling,- clawing, striking and biting at
her assailants. Several times she leaped
over the banister that protected the
stairway. alighting heavily on the next
landing.
From a score of bullet wounds blood
ran, but the lioness was almost as
full of fight when she finally dropped
as when the first shot was fired. The
end came after one of her spectacular
leaps
Bounding over balustrade she
landed between the legs of Alfred Win
ter, a policeman, who stood with one
foot on the railing and another against
a wall, firing at her. The force of the
fall and the leaden- hail that rained
into her body ended the battle.
Policeman Shot
1t was while the firing was at its
height that Sergeant Glenn was
wounded. 1t is doubtful if it ever will
be determined who in the squad of
10 men firing almost continuously hit
him. He was shot through the back
and the bullet was said to have enter
ed his stomach. It was thought he
would die Both Edward Keaveny and
James NJ Craig. policemen, sustained |
wounds at the claws of Alice. Keaveny
was so seriously lacerated that he was
sent to hospital. Craig was holding
to a round in a balustrade shooting at I
Alice when she spied his hand. Reach
ing forth she clawed him, though not
He continued at work.
Five of the animals were females
and one male. All were young and
considered valuable.
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