New-York tribune., 1911-11-27
TRIES TO KILL.
"BiIT' Snyder Narrowly Escapes
Being Crushed Under Jewel.
PACHYDERM IS SHACKlED
Before Last Leg Is Bound She
Makes Three Attempts on
Park Keepers Life.

Jewel by name but not by natur" IS
that warlike pachyderm I'm the 'ehtlaI
Park menagerie. which decided yestcrday'
after being surly for some time, 10 80 on
ono of those peevish sprees elephants IN
captvity so often give way 10. JeWei nVes
I'm q house with Hattie, less militant
specimen. as we'll as one more amonable 10
kind treatment Hattie II is who performs
all the stunts" that have made "BilI
SNYDER. the head keeper, so well known 10
MANY neople I'm New York Not 50 with
Jewel. though. She has but one trick, ana
il is 10 go bad" at frequent intervals her
shrill trumpetings and bloodshot eyes had
convinced attendants she again was In an
untractable mood.
For four days tho crouch has had COM
plete control Of Jewel. Yesterday It en-
Iargcd. and finally Jewel gave way to ht
of frenzy, the like of which has not been
seen for many years I'm the Central PARK
mcuagerio. Snyder went I'm to see II she
had improved any. She had not. Then the
kconor decided to anchor the his animal 10
the floor Of her cage
Bob" IIurton Is the regular keeper oi
the elephant house but only Hattie ac-
knowledges It. Jewel has never cared for
the keeper. try as he would 10 he friendly
with her She has never shown particular
antipathy to Snyder unless i'm bad mood.
But that mood being uppermost yesterday'
Snyder was on his guard as he re-ontercd
the elephants cage with the shacklcs'
lie anchored her two hind legs without
great difficulty. and had begun TO fast"n
down one of the forelcgs when Jewel SUD
denly came down on her knees in an ehort
10 crush the life out of the keeper. II IS
an elephant trick to he rid of It's enemy In
a hurry. Snyder saw the knees bend. lie
jumped, and the heavy body came down on
the floor. He quickly fastened the shacNe
as the animal still stopped. There was one
more leg. however And that one leg was
not shacklcd until Jewel had tried three
times in different ways, TO Kill her Keeper
Reaching out with her trunk To gran ln'
keeper he retreated and she caught IN
stead. one of the large beams that iasleH
her door 4 heavy crcak followed ana
people in the elephant house thought the
building was coming down. BIZ stooo
hack of the elephant and waited chance
to get at the other leg. He warned hur-
ton to keep away. as Jewel only grew "lId-
or when the keeper tried TO assist In ias-
tening her down.
Before fastening that last leg Snyder de-
cidcd he must put on 4 niartingale 1t was
impossible TO shackle the elephants Lex
while her trunk was free. This he DID Whle
a batch Of new hay attracted tho attenuon
of Jewel once on, the martingale hclu
securely the trunk. and soon the last
shackle was fastened.
Some years ago Snyder received broken
collar bone in an attack by an elephant
The tusks OF this bull missed the keeper
but n glancing blow from the trunk caught
him. Last year when he put bad ele-
phant 10 death in Jersey City with cyanide
Of potassium he had another narrow es-
cane from a sweeping trunk
Jewel will he kept shackled and Will wear
her martingae until she regains her amla-
bility. Her vicious moods generally last
according to the keeper. six or eight days