1908-09-07 – FALSE FIRE PANIC IN PICTURE SHOW

Originally printed on September 7, 1908 in the New York Times

FALSE FIRE PANIC IN PICTURE SHOW.

Morris Becker of Broome Street, Newark, N.J., Will be arraigned in the Second Criminal Court to-day charged with creating a disturbance in a moving picture theatre at 137 Springfield Avenue, that city, shortly before midnight Saturday which precipitated a panic. Becker objected to a boy standing in front of him, and finally flung the lad to one side against the wall. In the excitement some one set up the cry “fire.” The exits were thrown open, and, although the attaches tried to quiet the panic-stricken people, they climbed over seats and crowded one another down in the aisles in their anxiety to get out.

 

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