The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-24

was summoned, and sat in the
shambles or the victim, with the
butcheress looking on at the pro-
ceedings.
Pippin told me she took of a
juryman's hat during the investi-
CATION, waved it triumphantly in
the air, and placed it cleverly on
her favorite's head, old Tom.
At this inquest two or three
persons deposed on oath that the
deceased had i'll used her more
than once in France; in particular,
that he run a pitchfork into her
two years ago; that he had been
demonstrated with, but in vain !;
unfortunately, she had recognized
him at once, and killed him out
of revenge for past cruelty, or to
save herself from fresh outrages.
This cooled the ardor aginst
her. Some even took part with
her against the nan.
"Run a pitchfork into an ele-
plant, o, for shame! no wonder
she killed him at last. How good
of her not to kill him then and
there,-what forbearance,-for
gave it for two years, we see."
There is fixed opinion among
men that an elephant is a good
kind creature. The opinion is
fed by the proprietors of ele-
phaets, who must nurse the no
tion or loose their customers, and
so set tale was always ready to
clear the guilty and criminate the
sufferer; and this tale is greedily
swallowed by the public. You
gill hear and read many such
tales in the papers before you die.
Every euch tale is lie.
How obviously things happen!
Last year, i. 6, more than twenty
years after this event, my little
girl went for a pound Of butter to
Newport Street. She brought it
wrapped up in a scrap of . very
old newspaper; in unrolling it my
eye, by mere accident, fell upon
these words: San inquest" L
had no sooner read the paragraph
than 1 put the scrap Of paper in
my desk: it lies before ME now,
and I am copying it. !
An inquest was held at the
PhGniX Inn, Morpeth, on the 9th
ultimo, on view of the body of an
Italian named Baptiste Bernard,
who was one of the attendants on
the female elephant which lately
at the Adelphi. 1t APP
peared from the evidence that the
man had stabbed the elephant in
the trunk with pitchfork about
two years ago while in a state of
and that on the
Tuesday previous to the inquest
the animal caught hold of him
with her trunk and did him so
much injury that he died in few
hours. Verdict, died from the
wounds and bruises received from
the trunk of an elephant. Dec
dand, 5s."
Well, this has gone ali abroad.
for print travels like wind, and it
is not fair to the friends and the
memory of this Baptiste Bernard
to print that he died by his own
cruelty, or fault or folly, SO take
my deposition, and carry it to
Milan, his native city.
l declare upon oath that the
above is a lie; that the man was
never an attendant on the female
elephant; he was an attendant on
the female Huguet; for he was
that lady's tootman. His first in
PRODUCTION to Mademoiselle Dick
vas her killing him, and he died,
not by any fault of his own, but
by the wiz Of God and through
ignorance of the zeal nature ofthe
full gY0gn elephant, GGe cunning
est, most treacherous ana blood
thirsty beast that ever played the
butcher among mankind.
What men speak dissOlves in the
air, what they print stands fast
and will look them in the face to
all eternity. I print the truth
about this mans death; so help
me God.
Business is business. AS soon
as we got the inquest over and
stamped the lie current, hid the
truth and buried the mar, we
marched south and played our
little play at Newcastle.
Deodand for a human soul
sent by murder to its account,
five bob.
After Newcastle we walked to
York, and thence to Manchester.
I erept along thoroughly crest
fallen. Months and months 1
had watched, and spied, aud tried
to pluck out the heart of this Tom
Elliot's mystery; l had failed.
Months and months l had tried to
gain some influence over Dick: 1
had failed. But for Elliot, it was
clear 1 should not live a single
day in reach of her trunk; thi 8
brute was my superior. I was
compelled to look up to him, and /
d id look up to him.
AS 1 tramped sulkily along, my
smarting shoulder reminded me
that in elephant, as in every thing
else ! had tried, 1 was Jack, not
master.
The propeietoEs had their cause of
discomfort too. We had silenced
the Law, but We could not silence
opinion. Somehow suspicion hung
about her in the very air wherever
she went. She never throye in the
English provinces after the Morpeth
Job, and, finding this, Mr.. Yates
said: go hang her, she has lost heI
character here; send her to Amer
iea." So he and III. Huguet joined
partnership and took this new spec
uIation on their shoulders. Amer
lea was even in that day q great
card if you went with an English
or French reputation.
I had been thinking of leaving
her and her old Tom in despair
but, now that other dangers and
| Inconvenience were to be endured
besides her and her trunk
by some strange freak of human
nature, or by fate, began to cling
to her like limpet to a rock the
more you pull at him.
Mr.. Yates dissuaded me. "HavG
nothing to do with her Jack she
| will serve you like all the rest