Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1918 — ELEPHANT SUFFERING FROM LOCKJAW SLAIN. [ARTICLE]

ELEPHANT SUFFERING FROM LOCKJAW SLAIN.

Big Beast Is Strangled to Death By Engine and Tackle. East St Louis, 111.— Judy, a 9,600 pound elephant attached to a large circus for many years, was executed in the. railroad yards here in order to relieve its sufferings from lockjaw. The elephant was put in a refrigerator car, which had been blocked with ties, and stakes, and a rope was fastened around its head, passed through a email window in the forward end of the car and attached to the tender of a locomotive. When all was ready the engine pulled, and the rope broke.* A chain was then procured and arranged as was the rope. Again the engine moved slowly ahead until the chain was pulled taut, and in thirty minutes the elephant was pronounced dead by strangulation. Judy was 50 years old.