Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1894 — ELEPHANTINE EXECUTION. [ARTICLE]

ELEPHANTINE EXECUTION.

The Savage Elephant “Tip” Killed With Poison. The Asiatic elephant “Tip,” presented to Central Park, New York, by Adair Gorepaugh in 1889, was poisoned by order of the authorities, Friday, with cyanide oi potassium. He died in twelve minute* after the drug was administered to him ta balls of wet bran. “Tip” had a record oi eight murders In as many years, and was considered the most unruly and vicious elephant ever brought to this country. Taxidermists immediately took charge of the body and began work to prepare it for the museum. Ills hide and skeleton will go to Dr. William Wallace to be placed alongside Jumbo in the museum of natural history; his viscera will go to Dr. B. U Huntington for the college of physicians , and surgeons, and his eyes to the oyo and ear infirmary.