Back in the early 1900s, the Sparks World Famous Show’s circus used a five-ton Asian elephant named Mary as part of its traveling performance. In September of 1916, while Mary was leading an elephant parade through Sullivan County, Tennessee, the circus’s elephant keeper, Red Eldridge, was killed while riding on the famed animal’s back. There are varying accounts of what actually happened that day, but an eyewitness claimed that Eldridge had prodded Mary behind the ear with a sharp hook, to which the hulking mammal responded by using her trunk to toss the man into a drink stand before stepping on his head. To quell public outrage, the circus owner decided to execute Mary by way of a public hanging at Clinchfield Railroad yard, where they also buried her remains..
https://howtoplaythedjembedrums.com/elephant-%f0%9f%90%98-charged-for-murder/
No comments:
Post a Comment