Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-18
THRILLING LION HUNT
ON NEW YORK STREETS
Five Animals Escape From Theatre,
Throwing Audience Into
Panic.
SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED
Requires Reserves From Three Pre-
cincts to Hold Immense Crowd I'm
Check - I'lfty-FOur Shots Fired
Into One Beast Before He Is Dead.
Especial To The Times

fISpeclal 10 me llffcS- D1SpHtcn.
NEW YORK. December lT.-I'ivc
lions escaped from the Eighty-sixth
Street Theatre this afternoon. throw
ing the audience into u panic and
Knocking down about 100 persons, two
OF whom were so badly Injured that
they were taken to a hospital Others
injured were able to go home.
Sergeant Samuel Glynn was shot and
seriously wounded by policemen who
were trying TO kill the lions
Policeman james NJ. Craig was
mangled In the left hand. Policeman
Edward Regency was manSled about the
mead and shot in the right hand. 1t
was reported that ont woman had been
terribly clawed by the Hon before It
reached the street.
The theatre Is motion picture and
vaudeville house. and II required re-
serves from three precincts to hold the
- Immense crowd In check.
aInbulances were called from the
reception and Flower Hospitals
me animals got out of their cage
just as their part OF the entertainment
ended.
At the time "A musical quartet. known
as inc -Four Hearts" had Just come on
the stage. When the lions leaned
down into the orchestra the singers
went on with their act. In an effort
10 quiet the panic stricken audience
The comedian of the quartet bepan
dancing. The theatre audience piled
peliineli out Of the side entrances of
I inc theatre. the lions having dashed
through the house and out into the
! lobby Four Of tine animals did not
ieaVc the building. and were corralled
IN The lobby for half an hour before
the police reserves and theatre en-
pioycs could drive them back to their
! cages Many shots were fired at them
In the lobby TO keep them terrified.
mo htth animal dashed for the
street. and IT was In the street that
'his animal attacked and clawed sew
eral people before the bullets OF the
police ended It's life. The lion dashed
east In Eighty sixth street to Third
Avenue. Al 1853. Third Avenue the
amman climbed the stairway and
"u'Neo INTO Glascr's Photograph CAL
ieIy- Iherc were q number OF people
sitting in the rcccption-room Whiting
10 nave their photographs taken az
me non walked In on them. They
promptly rushed TO the roof and
slammed down the trapdoor
TWO STUDIO EMPLOYEES
HADLf Ci.AWED ny LION
woman sitting for her portrait
ih.htea' ana two employees In the
non. which barred tho single exit wcr.
badly clawcd
The lion made himself a, hon. in tho
photograph gallery. shifted around a
!ip'e ana then returned TO the stree,
Is! this time the reserves from tho
East Eighty eighth Street station had
arrived. and the police began shoo,,nu
AT the animal, which by now hnd II.
come savage and was a,.c,nutir1 m
run away. Fifty-four shots were nr, d
'nto his body before he was killed.
WAS sitting In the second row O.
the orchestra" said Fred Jacobs q,
~ East Eiyhty-second street. land
TOUR singing comedians we're on IN.
stage suddenly heard "a cry from
peh!nd the scenes. and thought ther,
VAS IRE. so got out OF ms seat and
went through the stage door Az
uid so thrae lions bumped into me and
Knocked me down: bu, they didn't hur,
me They went into tho orchestra
heh ! heard tn. most terribla eric,
rom the women and children as they
tired 10 get out Of the place
rushed Into the theatre and hoI.
Tered that there wasn't any danger
mat the lions were old and wouldn',
Dlte. But the people paid no atten.
ton to M. and guess about twent,
Sirls and women tainted In all parts o,
the house"
The lions We're being exhibited b,
woman billing herself as Nine An.
hrce She had six lions in all but on,
"' them docilely hoped back into nj.
cage when the act was concluded /
was while AN attendant was locking
mis- cage that the other five animoI
decided 10 make their break for lib.
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