The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-16
WICKED OLD ELEPHANT DEAD.
~ MIRO H., Ft'LL or YEARS AND
SIN, PASSES AWAY.
Had Record as Long as q Press AGENTS
imagination. and His Owners We're
Unable 20 Give Him Away-NelIic,
Pet Leopard. Succunbs 10 Operation.


Jumbo H., big Asatic male elephant.
the property Of W. c. Bostock, the show.
man, died in Cleveland yesterday, accord
ing to telephone message which Mr..
Bostock received from his representative,
there. The Bostock people say that Jumbo
ii. was not only the largest elephant in
captivity, but the wickedest.
Mr.. Bostock presented the beast to the
city OF Cleveland with his compliments
last summer. After keeping the animal a
week the menagerie people returned him
with their compliments
They said they couldn't find any one
willing enough to risk his life In handling
him.
just when he didn't know what to do
with Jumbo H.. Mr.. Bostock says, he re-
celVed proposition from bullnpht
manager in the city of Mexico to pit Jumbo
ii against a bull; Mr.. Bostock agreed 10
the proposition, and Jumbo II. was being
trained for tho fight when he died. The
promoters of the fight had promised to give
the Snowman 5000 for expenses and 50
per cent. Of the gate receipts.
The historian of the Bostock show saws
that Jumbo ii. was 1870 years old He ia
sure Of six years Of that because Mr.. Bos.
took got him in 1885, The hist orian also
says that the elephant was originally the
property of an Indian Prince, who presented
him to the Duke of Edinburgh, who in turn
sold him to the show. His formal obituary
will add that he was decorated by Queen
Victoria for distinguished services in the
AbyssiI!ian war
Jumbo ii. was just little smaller, but
weighed ton more than the original Jumbo
A no I'm al had -
the native Indian term for elephar tine
Insanity IL was always necessary to
keep him harnessed with chains to which
some $50 pounds of iron was attached
Whenever the show people took him through
the streets II was in an iron cage sixteen
feet square.
There il TO record of how many persons
Jumbo IL killed in his career. In his native
country il is said that he was used as on
instrument of the law in trampling criminals
to death. Coming over on the boat to this
country he killed one of his keepers. At
the Buffalo Exposition he killed another
and badly injured Capt. Matthew johnson,
one of the show men,
The obituary editor of the Rost ock show
also placed on record the deaf h of Nellie
the pet leopard. al the st. Nicholas Garden
yesterday morning Here are fragments
OF the account sent to the newspapers
Nellie is dead The star Of Mime. Louise
Moroi's group Of leopards and jaguars,
died at ; O'Clock Yesterday morning. in the
rooms Of her mistress. OF the thousands
who have witnessed the performances of
the Lady OF the Ieopards." there are few
who will not remember one handsome speci-
men. whose eyes were brightest whose in
teligence was to most manifest, and whose
disposition was the quietest This was Nellie,
who died at the age of years
II was in giving brit to her first pro geny TINT
this gentle Of creatures lost her life hree
babies were born TWO died and one who has
not vet opened her eyes and Is not aware of
its orphanage IL living While she rested in
her MISTRESS arms, the surgeon admin
i.tercd ether Later she was placed on the
operating table and an operation somewhat
cRsarlan in it, character was performed
probably the first of its kind known In the
animal world Al O'Clock in the morning
gentle, kind hearted, aNeCtionate Nellie
passed away TWO hour aftcrward the
the noor bending over the dead LEOPARD,
now stiff and cold in death, weeping softly