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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 .
This is the only known elephant hanging in history. Mary, who toured with the Sparks World Famous Shows circus, killed her inexperienced keeper, Walter "Red" Eldridge, on 12 September 1916 during a circus parade in nearby Kingsport, Tennessee. (Eldridge had supposedly hit Mary's tusk or ear when she wandered from the parade line to eat a piece ...
A purported photograph of the execution of an elephant named Mary in 1916. An elephant execution, sometimes called elephant lynching, is a pseudo-legal or performative public spectacle where a captive elephant is killed in order to punish it for being a "bad elephant" (behaviors that had, threatened, injured, or killed humans). Documenting the ...
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Mila the elephant hasn't seen another elephant in more than 30 years. She meets Mary, the two share a gentle embrace, and hearts everywhere melt. The story of their friendship gets even more touching.
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So either Mary's tusks were removed before she was hung -- or they were removed after the hanging and Mary was "rehung" for a photo-op. A third possibility -- that the photograph was a hoax -- ought not to be discounted; when it was submitted to Argosy magazine for publication, the photo was rejected as a phony."
In a video she shared online, Kendra caught something peeping up at her from the other side of a stone wall. Sure enough, it was a huge Elephant Seal just chilling on the moss and keeping an eye ...