ELEPHANT DIES
GIVEN DOSE OF CYANIDE. FORBES. September '-’O. Given a heavy dose of cyanide early this morning, the circus elephant which killed its keeper on Tuesday, did not die until an hour later. For halt an hour the elephant, which was imprisoned in a railway truck, moved restlessly about, trumpeting loudly. Then, in its death agony..it made a last furious attack on the truck driving its tusks through the reinforced sides. TTie crowd ran in terror, but a few minutes later the animal slumped quietly forward. Ttl lay with its two front legs crumpled underneath it. and the tusks still firmly wedged in the truck. The tusks had to he cut away before the dead animal could be moved.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1937, Page 2
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