Above is Reproduced a Remarkable Photograph Showing How Black Diamond a Circus Elephant, as Executed by a Firing Squad After He Had Gone Mad and Crushed a woman to Death. It Took 50 Bullets to Kill the Mammoth. Pretty miss Fritzi Fern Kern of Los Angeles is Shown Alwve with an Elephant's Great Hoof, Converted J*y » Taxidermist into a Foot-Stool or Mail Box or Receptacle for Odds and Ends. These Six Circus Elephants Originally Were Selected to Act as Black Diamond's Executioners in Case it Was Decided to Strangle Him to Death. This Photograph of “Tex” Another Veteran Circus Elephant, Was Taken, in Little Rock, Ark. Just Before He "Was Electrocuted for Killing Nine Men, Wounding Two Others and Destroying Thousands of Dollars Worth of Property in That City. It Required 40,000 Volts to Kill the Animal.

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1022, 12 July 1930, Page 17

Above is Reproduced a Remarkable Photograph Showing How Black Diamond a Circus Elephant, as Executed by a Firing Squad After He Had Gone Mad and Crushed a woman to Death. It Took 50 Bullets to Kill the Mammoth.

Pretty miss Fritzi Fern Kern of Los Angeles is Shown Alwve with an Elephant's Great Hoof, Converted J*y » Taxidermist into a Foot-Stool or Mail Box or Receptacle for Odds and Ends.

These Six Circus Elephants Originally Were Selected to Act as Black Diamond's Executioners in Case it Was Decided to Strangle Him to Death.

This Photograph of “Tex” Another Veteran Circus Elephant, Was Taken, in Little Rock, Ark. Just Before He "Was Electrocuted for Killing Nine Men, Wounding Two Others and Destroying Thousands of Dollars Worth of Property in That City. It Required 40,000 Volts to Kill the Animal.