The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-26
Big ELEPHANT PUT TO DEATH
OFTEN kIILED 4 NV. BI q nan
NOBtl DF TEIIING HHl.
Watched Them tbain Her and Ne the
Poisoned Oa rrin.;, Brcau>r she itad
Brrn kept Rungr, ~hr Mass: Year,
Did aud Weighed Nrari, rour Ion.

FOR 'uagls tranSisniS on Marcy avenue
Ne~' Bergen They killed 'hl- great
'n.'Ian elephant whose heart was 50 ca
-icinu- because she herself wa niur-
eresS loss than month ago IN" had
Nns,' with all the weight 81 Ter three.
AMI half tons on the hest nf her keeper.
Bnh Shields. and a. n" hlr went o'sr NJ
him she had lifted h-g trunk and trumI "'ed
wiCkediv
~ Yesterday ou"'l had 10 pay IN"
penaiiy. They bcguIlrd her with two
red apples and pailful az ~'"aming
mash Queen ate. with her lii'!" red
eyes shifting from fac" To fac" nf 'hns.
before her. suspiciously seeking 10 know
the reason for thar solemn ceremonial
of kindness.
Then the lightning IT the cyanide which
had been hidden IN those propitiatory
offerings snote Queen terribly For the
space of nineteen minutes 1850 pounds
Of life fought against the dissolution that
lay in The stab Of the drug. In the end
sighty-seven years of one elephants
-pan on earth had snapped; the shears
e some pachydernaious Atropos had
shipped the thread
Who but the jungle creatures Of her
kind can ever know why Queen went
ireary world Of the smelling sawdust
and the tapping canvas so far away from
the banyans and the water PUSHES Of IN.
Hoogli that can know the depths Of IN.
heart OF one of the jungle beings? As
suredly not such a one a. Frank A. Rob-
bins. the man who owned Queens body
and who decreed that she must die. Had
there been a little brown man Of the
leafy places in India who could have stood
on Queens Bonded trunk and " hispered
inquiry into her ears. perhaps she would
then have answered with her eyes and
With her smuggling trunk a. Ia the murder
that she had done
So many years ago IL was that Queen
almost had forgotten the DAYS Of her
rolhcking infancy somewhere in the cool
compounds by the side of white and gold
ha2aars In the after years. when all
the horror of that pitching and tossing !
in IN. ocean prison were dimmed by for |
Es'fulness. perhaps "A jaybird's call or
some fugitive smell Of stacked hay IN |
the fields or bv the circus tents carried |
the matured Queen. the slave of a man !
back to the GOODNESS and the spicinsss |
Il the long dead time when she was just !
sfrisky girl elephant. mistress of her own |
Caprices
Yes the years of her slavery wore !
many The first master. he Of the twisted |
lit and the di-Cour'eous address. had |.
20 ID her 70 "A Ra jah seventh son IN labor. |
h"'Cr. ever IN" elephant Cupid had begun I
10 talk her for hts prize. There IN lahore /
rhsr. had been one little brown man /
VINO knew tbs, jungle creatures and who |
could talk to them IN their own tongue ,
he II was who at rrst taught Queen the
H.. - ,.il 81 -,
AraCiCu-iy
u only that little brown and nearly
NAKED man who knew could have been
N q barn on Marcy avenu. III d town of
lew Jersey thar dav three weeks ago
hen Queen slew IN. keeper who did not
know her heart then would he not have
understood that 1t was not murder no.
not murder. but just the eSCusahle crochet
OF A bitter old lady elephant who had
bowed 80 long under slavery
Listen to the sordid story of Queen
bondage: Forty years-forty bitter wears
With circus.s They called thes. circI-+-
variously Cole Bros Popcorn George =.
rhe Hall Circus and Frank Robbins =
show But under whatever name they
were the same Dreary. intsrnIna bl.
wears Of hocking. staring crowds by day
and the sitting stall IN the railroad car
or the dark country road afoot by night
Thousands OF different faces looking up
dumbly into Queen eyes. tens Of thou
sands 81 reaching hands with foolish pea
nuts offered peanuts and popcorn and
pieces Of paper bag or cigar stubs The. !
gawks and yokel= glared at Queen year on
year while she. perchance. was deep in the
vision Of thoSe green banyans and those
white and gold bazaars back IN the land
she came from
This keeper came and went. then that
one Never one Of them whom Queen
could lift on the crook OF her trunk 40
that he could whisper Understandings
into her ears a. the little brown man did
~ rNlI cod ,i..I
her with spik - and saIlrt.d water IN her
eyes for q Joke. Some rough men and
unknowIng as they We're tried to lea I'm
IN. SORROW in Queens heart and with "a
Pat or rub now and then spoke IN a sign
language only dimly approaching the
rare communion which had been between
the young elephant 81 the dead years and
her long dead tutor.
SO Queen lived those forty years in
slavery and nun 10y the dictation Of her
masters Then came the day three
weeks ago when Queens patience broke
and she vented her wrath on Trainer
Rob Shields She did IL Craftiy. she
seized him when non" WAS near threw
HIM against the wall Of her hall room
APARTMENT in the jungle peoples winter
boarding house then knelt on him and
ground him beyond human -emblance
Doesn't even IN. most sweet tempered :
did lady occasionally fy into pet when .
IN" has lost her knitting n.eCile' Consider
an old elephant who has lived forty years
IN .pinst erhood and in bondage
They began 10 prepar" Queen for her
execution FIVE days ago They reduced
her allowance Of food day by day Dr
Matthews and pr English Iet.rina rie-
telie, 81 that perhaps the poison would
strike more mercifully swift II the vic.
tim stomach Was empty Queen noted
In" short rations Maybe sh. heard the
whispers that PASSED b--ween he
Versrinarie- and Charley Curtis. her new
trainer A. II she scented the plot she
grew restless
Yesterday when she saw Frank Robbins
con,. ~ and stand looking az her crit.
rally -ne wondered wondered SLOWLY and
yOpdarOIsiy "a the elephant fol> DO but
rersisiently
Awful lot ~ r.ea' 'here Queer heard
hs- owner say That was odd Ot.aan
he'd n",ar considered herself IN terms OF
mS.t before
hon -ar.v y the afternoon strange
ycnpl.. r.gan 20 come INTO the .I.ghar'