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Tyke (1973 – August 20, 1994) was a female African bush elephant from Mozambique who performed with Circus International of Honolulu, Hawaii.On August 20, 1994, during a performance at the Neal Blaisdell Center, she killed her trainer, Allen Campbell, and seriously injured her groomer, Dallas Beckwith.
On October 22, 1943, German-American circus performer Aloysius Peters, billed as "The Great Peters" and "The Man With the Iron Neck", was killed when his signature stunt went wrong at the Fireman's Wild West Rodeo and Thrill Circus in St. Louis, Missouri. Peters' act involved leaping from a trapeze bar with a noose around his neck made from an ...
Mary (c. 1894–September 13, 1916), also known as "Murderous Mary", [1] was a five-ton Asian elephant [2] who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus.After killing circus employee Walter “Red” Eldridge on his second day as her handler in September 1916, in Kingsport, Tennessee, she was hanged in nearby Erwin.
Jamaica Bay is quietly earning a reputation as the Big Apple’s version of the Bermuda Triangle -- with at least eight dead bodies discovered in and around the area over the past year, some under ...
After the game, Toronto police charged Winfield with causing "unnecessary suffering of an animal". The charges were dropped the following day. [11] [12] Cocaine Bear: 1985: A 175-kilogram (386 lb) American black bear died in Georgia in 1985 after overdosing on cocaine.
A dog locked in a basement. A rescue group gone wrong. A busted cockfighting ring. These are just some of the animal cruelty cases that have hit North Jersey of late, but are such cases on the rise?
Johnson was charged with 17 counts of abuse of a body, and more charged were expected as the investigation proceeds. Johnson was denied bond and remains in a county jail, the local news outlet ...
Topsy (c. 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant who was electrocuted at Coney Island, New York, in January 1903.Born in Southeast Asia around 1875, Topsy was secretly brought into the United States soon thereafter and added to the herd of performing elephants at the Forepaugh Circus, who fraudulently advertised her as the first elephant born in the United States.