MAD ELEPHANT
TRAMPLED ROYAL CAR TO SCRAP A fight between two big elephants, one of which was mad, and both of which are now dead, caused great excitement in Bangkok, the Siamese capital. One was murdered by his assailant, and the victor was induced to eat a large bundle of bananas containing strychnine in order to prevent him doing further damage. Trouble started when one big tusker in the Royal stables stuck his tusks into a neighbour’s back. Both broke their shackles and escaped into the street. In the end the one first wounded, trumpeting his protests, fled across a wooden bridge, which collapsed beneath his weight. He fell into the river, his trunk and tusks becoming embedded in the soft mud, and he was quickly suffocated. The mad aggressor then looked round for fresh prey. One of the Ring’s motor-cars appeared to annoy him, and he trampled it to scrap iron. Some poisoned bananas were then administered to him. And so he died.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 616, 19 March 1929, Page 12
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164MAD ELEPHANT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 616, 19 March 1929, Page 12
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