Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1879 — The Flying-Trapeze Act. [ARTICLE]

The Flying-Trapeze Act.

Marie Azurine and Frank Monroe, with Fanchon’s Parisian Folly Troupe, were performing a trapeze act at the Theater Comique in Detroit, when the woman met with a terrible accident. She was swinging through the air, preparatory to leaping to the grasp of her partner, who hung head down from the proscenium, and, wnen at the greatest altitude of her flight, she was seized with vertigo, her hands released the grasp of the bar, and she fell head downward thirty feet, striking on an orchestra chair and thence rolling down to the floor unconscious. The result was a broken collar-bone, three ribs fractured,

and internal injuries. Her recovery is improbable. She was a superbly formed woman, weighing about 150 pounds, and 25 years of age