Tommy
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Perry Brothers Circus in Australia

1. 1937: elephant trainer Jack Stevens fatal attack by Tommy. Killed the elephant trainer Jack Stevens, and then ran around in the town Parkes in NSW, until Tommy Perry and assistants managed to get him into a wagon. † Jack Stevens Died 1937

Tommy was born unknown 1913.

1937: Killed the elephant trainer Jack Stevens, and then ran around in the town Parkes in NSW, until Tommy Perry and assistans managed to get him into a wagon.

The Police ordered its destruction, and Tommy was fed apples filled with cyanide.

The death of the elephant, which was twenty-four years of age, and had been with the circus for sixteen years, reperesented a loss of between 500£ and 600£ to the proprietors.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 65, 14 September 1937, Page 10
• http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2010/09/from-robert-perry-1.html

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