The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-18

ShoV was RefuS ed-Im sive
Scenes About the Gage.
From the Philadelphia Times.
New York, May 1L.-Despite all the
scientific discussion that preceded the
carrying out of the death sentence pro
nounced on Tip, the Central park ele-
plant, by the park commissioners, the
attempt made to execute him to-day was
a bungling one The late experiments
upon Guinea pigs and othe previous tests
with animals smaller than pachyderms
seemed to fail as an experience upon
which to base expectation of similar eff
fects on so mammoth an organism as
that of an elephant.
1t was decided late yesterday that TIP
would be put to death about dawn to-day.
The elephants demeanor yesterday was
still threatening, and he refused food and
acted as if he were i'll. AT o'clock this
morning, by Encouragement and invita-
tion, about twenty-five persons gathered
to see him executed.
Tips executioner, il was all nre-
arranged, was to have been his keeper.
young Snyder, for whom Tip, il has been
SAID, had conceived a mortal hatred
There is no doubt that this was cordially
reclprocated by Snyder, and he was will
Ing enough 10 remove lip, but it was
eventually sagely concluded that TIP
might sagaclously suspect him of being a
Borgla, and at the eleventh hour one Otto
Motifs, former keeper of the park and a
sort Of an all around elephant man, was
chosen TO do the deed.
CURIOUS TO SEE TIE SCENE.
At e ~ O'plNolv al woe 4 =.
mess. The scene was impressive. With
out the elephant house, grouped on the
walks OF the park, even at that early
hour, was a considerable crowd, who
waited and listened with much the same
intensity that people listen outside a
prison wall for a sound, or look for a
sign that murderer's soul has left his
body. Inside the scene was positively un-
canny. 1t was gray light, and the little
gathering stared solemnly at the fated
lip, whose ponderous bulk swayed from
side to side.
Tip was shackled merely with one chain
around his fore leg. He was Gagged, but
the bars were not TO all appearances ele-
phaut-proof, and as for the building. there
IS small doubt that a mad adult bull
elephant could carry out a side of it in
rush An added menace was in the pres
ence Of the other elephants in the same
house.
The deadly dose was given to Tip lust
before O'Clock. IL was two ounces of
cyanide of potassium, placed in a carrot.
Motifs took the carrot and amid a silence
that was absolute tossed it to the poor
brute. Tip readily picked it UP and swal-
lowed it. The effect was not immediately
apparent, and other doses were given
him. At 1870 he retched and seemed in
agony, still did not die, and about 9 80
1t was deemed best to have him shot.
PERMISSION TO SHOOT REFUSED.
Four men with Winchesters came in
and pole with piece of chalk on the
end was to be used to mark the spot.
Just then President Haines, of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, interfered and forbade the
shooting He went down to the society's
office, he said, to- get advice and poor Tip
was left with the curious watching his
suferings. Another consideration bear
ing on the proposed shooting was the
declaration by Inspector Leavey, of the
park department, that when Emperor
was shot some years ago the other ele-
plants were thrown into panic, and
that dangerous stampede was narrowly
averted
Tips systems were an interesting
study. He began to quiet down, and the
doctors said that the drug was having a
sedative effect. Then Tip backed up into
the angle made by the iron bars and the
side wall of his cage, ana stood there with
his launches resting against the wall.
This, according TO DR.. Allen, was an eff
feet of the cyanide of potassium, which,
acting on the spinal cord, produces, first,
a partial paralysis of the hind quarters.
Three more attempts were made to in
duce Tip to take the poison. Two more
apples and a half loaf of bread. all
charged with the drug, were taken from
Motifs by the elephant, squeezed with his
trunk and tossed aside
William Wallace, of the Museum Of
Natural History tried to induce Tip to
eat a potato and an apple, neither OF
which contained poison, after the loaded
carrot had been administered. Tip re-
fused, however, to eat the perfectly
sound fruit. Then the park board left
the park, and went down town, where
they held meeting to decide what was
the next thing to be done, and Park Com
missioner Tappen informed Mayor Gilroy
of the failure TO kill Tip.
The noon hour arrived and passed and
Tip was not only alive, but seemed to be
himself again. Notwithstanding his rejec-
ton of some of the various poisoned NOR
sells given him. it was estimated that he
must have retained in his system about
al OulCC dud uoAl VI VIC ~ dulOO VI pO-
taSsium
At noon about 1000 people crowded
about the elephant house. Tom and Juno,
Tips smaller companions, were chained
outside and behind the house, and Zip
was feeding freely on grass, which the
medicos thought might be acting as an
antidote. A DR. Wright, of West Eighty
first street, who had come as an expert,
brought a gun. He acted so peculiarly
that he was made to go away
GIVEN A MIXTURE OF BRAN.
AS a last resource bran was decided
upon, and balls of wet bran were made up
in each one OF which was placed cap
sule containing about five or six grains Of
the cyanide. They were placed in the
ordinary pail in which food had been
given him before. At seven and half
minutes before O'Clock he put his trunk
in the pail, and taking up ball of bran,
blew IL down his throat. Several others
followed and then he stopped. Some
thing seemed to affect him. He moved to
the front Of the cage and rubbed his side
against the bars, then he trumpeted once
or twice, and at the end of four minutes
seemed to 60 into convulsions, his body
swelled, ana in his efforts to strain and
stretch he burst the chain that went
around his body-the chain to which his
martingale was attached and extending
up his breast and 10 the tusks.
He next seemed frantic, reared up, and
paved with his fore feet against the out