Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1914 — LIONS ESCAPED FROM CAGE IN THEATRE [ARTICLE]

LIONS ESCAPED FROM CAGE IN THEATRE

New York Play House Crowded and Great Excitement Until One Killed; Others Captured. A lion hunt was staged in the streets of New York Thursday. Trained lions, five in number, escaped from their cage at the 86th street theatre, which was crowded. Four of the lions were cowed and driven back into their cage but the othvr lion escaped and attacked policemen Who tried to drive it ■from the street without firing on account of the danger of the bullets. in the crowded street. Finally when it became necessary to shoot the lion and it was killed in a tenement house into which it rushed. Two policemen were seriously Injured and two others were Shot, one seriously. Tens of thousands of people were shopping in the street when the . ion dashed from the door of the Theatre.

Police Sergeant Glynn was the man seriously wounded while half a dozen policemen were firing at the lions. One ofthe Mons was brought to bay In the lobby of the beat re. Another lion made its way to a photograph gallery in the building.

Angered by bullets, the lions attacked the policemen who were firing at them. Policemen James Craig was caught by one of the beasts, which chewed his left band. Policemen Edward Kegney was hurt about the head by another lion and was shot in the right hand by one of his companions, who sought to drive the beast ■away.

The animal that entered the photograph gallery was the one which reached the street. As it entered the room it knocked down the proprietor, who was in the act of taking a picture of a woman. The woman, too, was knocked down.