Lucy
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Gran Circo Union in Mexico

1. 1944-07-12?: elephant keeper Gabe Tucker fatal attack by Lucy. The show left Portland after the Sunday date (July 9, 1944) and moved to Vancouver, Washington, for two days. Longview was next and then Chehalis. It was here, after the night show had broken, that Lucy killed Gabe Tucker. † Gabe Tucker Died 1944-07-12?, Chehalis. Concello immediately called C. R. Montgomery who had a mink farm outside Albany, Oregon, and urged him to shelter the elephant.

Lucy was born wild at Asia unspecified location.

George"Slim"Lewis's 1955 book elephant tramp has a whole chapter about lucy(chapter 5,Learning lessons from Lucy)

Lucy had a long circus career which began with a two-car show entitled Campbell Bros. It was owned by Wm. P. (Low Grass) Campbell. She was sold to the Ketrow Circus in 1923 and was with it until she became Seils-Sterling property for the 1931 season. At the auction of that show in Milwaukee in September 1938 she became Louis Meitus property. The author was present when she, Billy Sunday, and additional animals and equipment from Meitus were delivered to Zoo-park, (ex-Selig Zoo) Los Angeles, in 1940. Lucy was at Goebel's in Thousand Oaks prior to the outbreak of World War II and was used by Jack Joyce through mid-July, 1944, when, after she killed attendant Gabe Tucker, she was sold. She became the property of Ben Davenport and was with his organization until 1955 when she was deposited with Gran Circo Union. She has been dead for a number of years.
Chang Reynolds. Bandwagon, Vol. 13, No. 3 (May-Jun), 1969, pp. 10-19.

Buckles Woodcocks alternative verson:

1918-19 Hall's Farm
1920-23 Campbell Bros. 2 Car Show
1924 J.H. Berry Independent Act
1925-30 Kay Bros. Circus (Wm. Ketrow)
1931-38 Seils-Sterling Circus
1939-41 Lincoln Park Zoo Los Angeles
1942 Jack Joyce Independent Act
1943-44 Clyde Beatty-Russell Brtos. Circus
1945-50 Dailey Bros. Circus
1951-56 Cappell Bros. Circus
1957-58 Gran Circo Union (Mexico)
(Died in Jan. of 1958)

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Chang Reynolds. Bandwagon, Vol. 13, No. 3 (May-Jun), 1969, pp. 10-19.
• http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2005/12/seils-sterling-circus-4.html

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