ROME ZOO TRAGEDY
LONDON, September 22. The Daily Mail’s correspondent at Rome says that Toto, the largest African elephant in the local Zoological Gardens, savagely killed Dr Canezza, who was operating on it for an abscess. Dr Canezza previously had operated upon a big ourang-outang, which seemed to realise that tire operation was beneficial. It quietly submitted, and lay motionless on a table. Dr Canezza fully expected the elephant to display similar intelligence, but the attendants held Toto’s head in chains. At the third incision it jerked its head free. It dashed Dr Canezza to the ground and trampled upon him, breaking every rib. The elephant then lifted the body in its trunk and beat it against the bars of its cage.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3526, 11 October 1921, Page 19
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122ROME ZOO TRAGEDY Otago Witness, Issue 3526, 11 October 1921, Page 19
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