The sun., 1902-12-13
Two MURDERS Her RECORD.
NOU SHE Must DIE HERSELF,
tND WITH SHORT SDRIFT.
Only One Man Gan Neep Topse, 8 Murderous
instinct IN Check. and lie Must 60
to Court. Leaving Her Without
tOnirol-She WEIGHS Three Tons.

A communication received the other day
by the Park Department from Thompson
Dundy, shoWrnen at Coney Island, may
furnish the Brooklyn Detective Bureau ith
valuable cue in a murder case which has
banicd th, sleuths ever since last May,
when j. Fielding B.oun Of Fort Wayne.
Ind, was killed at Saratoga avenue and
ialsey street.
The crime was committed by the no.
toricus Topsey, inan hater II was her
third murder that there il record Of, but
undoubtedly there have beer others. She
killed a man in Paris. and before that she
had killed a man in Waco, Tex. But she
has always escaped punishment. Since
she killed Blount in Brooklyn she has been
living on Coney Island, and has at times
been i'll the custody Of the police. She has
also made two attempts to commit murder
at Coney Island, but the police. since she
smashed in the station house door. have
been afraid of her.
The Brooklyn police had good clues, but
couldn't follow them up. They knew
that Topsey was 80 years old. got a measure
of her footprints, sxilh (rorscy il an
clcphanU, and learned that she had kink
in her tai. where 1t was once broken by
Adam Forepaugh. and had u general dc
s.riptiun as 10 her height AID complexion.
Bot now comes this exciting note TO the
Park Department:
for Gods SAX" send somebody down to
oIty lsInd to kill one fem L. elephant. or
sH"Ii Mil NJ and wreck l,un. Park
DtNpi THOMPSON
The Park Department sent back word
that they never did any elephant ki ling
outside of their own elephant house.
Tn" ehoHmcn then wrote to H." q n
of Princeton University. asking him II
the university wouldn't swap it, lct jaguar
for nice lady elephant that could do tricks,
hu' no reilly was received and so Topsev
must die The same show has pereonally
conducted tours TO the moon and twenty
thousand leagues under the sea. but Topspv
cant be fooled into taking either one Of
them
Nj. Thompson knows somebody who Is
a particular friend Of Thomas Edison and
hopes 10 learn through his friend how
many volts Of electricity II will take 10 kill
Ior'ev in huma!e way. Topsey weighs
If il wasn't for the curse Of rum Topsov
wouldn't have TO be killed She doesn't
drink, huf the only man on rqrth whom
she GOe-u'' want 10 kill aud who can man
a." her docs
'' III - NM l'IN'AN. "a ltl on, Ot The
~huN firm YESTERDAY, TO get rid e Cock
tails that's the hana f her keeper
FpNraim Cocktais He il the only man
in our outfit Who clnvi ltco rjl, against
getting drunk and still keep lis lob We
have to pay his fines too because he won't
ever DO HAT. And If th"v ere not paid
Cocktails would have to 70 to iai and
Tonsey would Kill seven or eight men
Here j. "A summary # the Tupsoy main
'enance account for one week
10 r.aHral- ,cs,s, salary 'iiSS
To d,nayc d1rc 6T for,sy 1,' TO ,r9Sin wS;,c !"
Cocktail, va, being arrasncd ........ ........ IS
Total. ...... ................ 500
That doesn't include tho risk which
Thompson 4 Dundy run in being on two
bonds Of $500 each for Cocktails good be-
havior for six months
The elcphan' must be killed before next
"Wednesday, because OF ;hat day his
keeper will have to be- in court longer than
usual and not u the Coney Island police
court, wh"r" he'd De handy in case Topsev
~lould get a mrIrdorous NJ on. h,t in Spe-
cid Sessions IN Brooklyn. wherc he is 20
b" arraiSned on charge Of cruelty TO ami
mails
I"psev broke out Of her shed the other
day and escaped 10 the street In order
:" ct her hack before there were anv ia
taltle- Cocktails IabUed her "A little with A |
ui'chfork. 4 cop arrested the keeper !
from force 81 habit, bat when he learned ,
that hi- prisoIcr happened 10 he sober
that day tho policeman thought Of the
pitchfprk, accused Cocktails Of cruelty
to animals and had him held for Special |
Sections
Another timo Cocktails had Topscy in |
harn"Ns and vas using her 70 drag Tn" |
aifsnlp from m" part Of the show park |
20 another. For shor, cut he cane down
surf avenue. Cocktails was in the airship |
and began 20 spai' the elephant with a |
-ilar" dero plane Tho keeper used 70 drive !
a Trndcrluin cab and thought he was hack +,
AZ his old job. When Topsev trimpeted /,
Policeman Cunnellv thought il was time |
to act, ~ h" arrested Cocktails He got !
on the air-hip and drove TO the station With |
his prisoner. Topsey, who il trick ele-.
phan' and can walt and walk on globes,
'"y"d her kocper's signals and climbed |
the polio" station steps, smashing in the |
door 80 that she could get through.
The rgcan bchind the desk dismissed
th" co.. part against Cocktails before lc |
know What it was and the prisoner re-
tired with his elephant
All th"s" things have caused D,ndy 4
Thompson 10 lose weight. They cheercd
up liitl" YESTERDAY when they heard that
Low had got nd of Partridge and began
to have hopes for Tops"v.