Topsy (elephant)
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Topsy was a female Asian elephant who was electrocuted to death at Coney Island, New York, in January 1903. Born in Southeast Asia around 1875, Topsy was secretly brought into the United States soon t
1899 poster for the combined Forepaugh & Sells Brothers Circus featuring acrobats' "Terrific flights over ponderous elephants"
Thomas A. Edison had no involvement with the death of Topsy.
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". Docum
Topsy (elephant)
…Tyke (elephant) Elephant execution in the United States CONEY ELEPHANT KILLED: Topsy Overcome with Cyanide of Potassium and Electricity, New York Times, Jan 5, 1903…
A purported photograph of the execution of an elephant named Mary in 1916