The evening world., 1894-05-11
EDITION.
TIP REFUSES
TO Be KILLED.
The Vicious Elephant Spat
Out a Carrot Loaded
with Poison.
THEN REFUSED OTHER BAIT,
Some Of the Poison, However,
Found Its Way to His
Stomach
ITS EFFECTS WERE NOTICED,
Supposed Drunken Man with q
Rifle Creates a Small.
Sized Panic.
ITS EFFECTS WERE NOTICED.

Tip still lives. The most deadly poison
known to science has failed to lay him
low. Mans knowledge has proved in
effectual against the innate cunning Of
the big pachyderm.
At 6 o'clock this morning Drs. Hunt
II gton n Allen. carrying leather bags.
entered the elephant-house. Their
knowledge Of t~oxicology caused them to
be singled out by the Park Commits
sioners to superiptend the administra-
ton Of the deadly drug which was to
make Of Tip a good elephant. They
had q little package off cyanide o
pota ssium, six ounces in all. sufficient TO
kill a regiment of men.
A crowd Of fully one hundred people
had gathered around the building. Hail.
Of them were newspaper men, who had
been detailed to witness The execution.
Park Commissioners Clausen, Straus
and Bell arrived shortly after. and the
quintet went into the elephant-house and
shut the door tight. At $50 o'clock h
doors were opened. and those who had
passes were allowed to enter.
Commissioners Bell and Straus took
charge Of things. and soon had q ope
aSioSS titS AZ cpAo hNbS
ment in front of Tips cage.
WINS TIP Suspicious?
All this time Tip stood behind his IRON
barred barrier n swung his trunk
back and forth. His little eyes twin
killed. and had a knowing look.
Keeper Snyder looked in and grinned.
why, he's dead onto this scheme" was
his only comment.
Snyder refused point-blank to be the
one to give Tip. the poison. SO otto
Mopis. an old animal trainer. who had
charge of Tip way back in 1881. was ap-
pointed executioner..
Supt. Burns handed DR.. Horace Allen,
curator OF the Museum OF Natural His
tory. a big carrot. which he had scooped
out and fitted with a plug made from
DR.. Allen took from his bag a package
Of the poison and poured two ounces OF
carrot; The plug, was neatly inserted
and the Sadly bolus was handed 70
He Takes the Carrot.
Mopis stepped up to the bars and
held the "arrot out to Tip with a word
W IN its p%rehensle finger, stretched out
and grasped the carrot gingerlyi
OF science had said that the stun would
hardly reach Tips stomach before he
would roll over dead.
Slowly and deliberately Tip curled hts
trunk under and lifted the carrot to his
capacious nav. An instant later II had
disappeared and the spectators waited
to see the five tons OF flesh fall with
But Tip didn't fall worth a cent. He
gave the carrot a crunch between his
powerful jaws and then deliberately
spectators thought that enough Of the
deadly stuff had found its way into Tips
stomach to do for him. There was.
however. no perceptible change In the
DIR. Allen at once called for an apple.
and Mr.. Burns prepared one to receive
ounces more OF the white powder was
poured into the hollow apple and plugged
Would Not Eat the Apple.
Mopis took It and again held out the
instrument OF dea:h for Tips acceptance.
Of his trunk around 1t. crushed II into .
pulp and deliberately tossed 1t away,
Meantime four men each carrying
a Winchester repeating rifle, filed In and
took a stand opposite Tips cage.
They were there TO be useful in case
OF an emergency.
man. with "A rife, presented himself. and
as he had a pass he was promptly adj
mitted.
He a not been In the elephant house
man moments before he began acting
In a very queer manner and to handle
his life in a way that the reporters
and others thought was very careless
and dangerous 10 the people In the
room.
After watching the strangers move
ments for some time several of those
present reported TO the authorities that
he was intoxicated, and he was asked
to leave. which he did Immediately.
When outside the house he grew very
indignant and said he was a gentle
man, was not intoxicated and had been
grossly insulted.
1t was said that the man was a friend
OF Assistant Superintendent OF Mem
agerie Burns and had secured his
pass from him
When Mr.. Burns was seen by an
Evening World" reporter he was very
retjcent regarding the matter. He said
the man was Dr.. Wright. Of. West
Eighty-nrst street. but that he did not
know his initials or exact address.
Net Drunk, but Nervous.
He said further that DR., Wright n