PINED AWAY?
ARTISTIC ELEPHANT. PARIS, Juno 5. Did Alary, the 24-year- ; old 2i ton elephant die from love-sickness, or from injuries received when the couch in which she was travelling in 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 an artist from trunk to tail,” said Grossi, “but, after the collision, she lost all desire to exhibit her talent, and declined and died.” The railway company’s counsel pleaded that Alary 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 Alary laded 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 for the sake ot her art. Judgment was reserved.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1931, Page 8
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173PINED AWAY? Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1931, Page 8
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