ELEPHANT AT LARGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 10

ELEPHANT AT LARGE

A NIGHT'S EXCITEMENT

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, May 5.

Jess, the dancing elephant at Wirth's Circus, escaped one moc ilit morning this week from the circus camp at Erskineville Park and went for a mad romp. Mr. W. Robson, who lives near the park, looked out of a window at 2.30 a.m. and saw her dancing on his lawn; ' '' "" ' ' ' '■' "".'■■■■"

Her trumpeting aroused residents all along the street, and many leaned from their windows. The audience grew as Jess dashed into the garden of the nearby workers' flats and pulled up "very small tree, tossing them away.

"I heard a commotion, put on the light, and opened the window," said Mrs. J. Wilson, who. lives in a groundfloor flat. "The elephant's trunk came through the window. "I screamed to my husband, 'There's a tiger in the room!'" **-

A circus attendant came to chase Jess away, but jumped the fence when she curled her trunk at him. She pushed the fence over. Then she dragged up a nearby street seat and flung it away. A street tree followed the seat. When more men from the circus arrived, Jess was trying her strength on a two-foot thick elm, but they finally persuaded her to go home.

"Jess got away by breaking her chain," said her keeper, Mr. H. Freeman.

The circus will repair all damage to property.