PINED AWAY?
ARTISTIC ELEPHANT PARIS, sth June. , Did Mary, the 24-year-old 21,-ton elephant died from love-sickness, or from injuries received -wlien the coacli in which she was travelling to fulfil an engagement was involved in a minor collision? The question was debated in Court, when the owner, Grossi, claimed damages. Mary had a big reputation as a harpist and saxophonist, besides her natural trumpeting. “She was ail artist from trunk, to tail,” ,said Grossi, “but, after tHd collision, she lost all desire to exhibit her talent, and declined and died.” j
The railway company’s counsel pleaded that Mary was notorious: as a neurasthenic, and called evidence to prove that her injuries were of the slightest, and could not have been responsible for her death. The real cause of her death, he urged, was that Mary faded away because she was tired of her artificial, loveless life. Grossi rejoined that she had 'always shown a highminded satisfaction at the sacrifice of her normal life f6r the sake of her art. Judgment was reserved.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 June 1931, Page 7
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172PINED AWAY? Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 June 1931, Page 7
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