ELEPHANT EXECUTED.
A DISCRIMINATING BEAST.
Sold by auction to a veterinary school for £8, an. elephant, which was sufferingj from an enormous abscess on the right foreleg, was killed in the Berlin Zoological Garden, in the presence of a large number of people.
Poison was first tried, but the animal refused bananas treated with prussic acid, ihought it ate other food with evident relish. Mr Charles Schilling, the well-known African explorer, was then called in to shoot the great beast with an army rifle and dum-dum bullets.
After the first shot the animal looked reproachfully at the explorer, but it suddenly began to groan, and after the second shot it collapsed, bursting the iron chains which bound it. In a few seconds the animal was dead.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8377, 25 July 1905, Page 2
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