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- Topsy (elephant) - Wikipedia
Topsy (c 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant who was electrocuted at Coney Island, New York, in January 1903
- The Electrocution of Topsy the Elephant - Historic Mysteries
Topsy the Elephant was executed by electrocution in 1903 Captured on film, Topsy’s death may be the first deliberate murder of an animal preserved this way
- Myth Buster-Topsy the Elephant - Rutgers University
The answer is an emphatic “no ” Topsy was sentenced to death by Luna Park officials based on the belief that she had become a "bad" elephant After many years as a circus elephant, Topsy had killed a man who had been teasing her while the circus was in Brooklyn in May 1902
- Topsy the Elephant Was a Victim of Her Captors, Not Thomas Edison
On this day in 1903, Topsy the elephant died of electrocution on Coney Island Many believe Topsy was a victim of the so-called War of the Currents, the battle between Nikola Tesla and Thomas
- Topsy: Electrocuting an Elephant (1903) *new restoration* WARNING . . .
Topsy the Elephant belonged to the Forepaugh Circus and spent the last years of her life at Coney Island's Luna Park Because she killed one trainer (who bur
- Who Was Topsy And What Did She Have To Do With the . . . - NYHistory
When Topsy, an elephant that had served as an attraction for visitors to Coney Island in the 1890s, killed several keepers (including an abusive trainer who tried to feed her a lighted cigarette), a decision was made to put her to death
- Topsys Tragic End: The Shocking Public Execution of an Innocent Elephant
Topsy was an obedient circus elephant despite the abuse she suffered, but after she finally struck back, she was sentenced to be electrocuted to death on January 4, 1903
- Topsy: the tragic circus elephant executed in 1903 Coney Island via . . .
Coney Island holds one of America’s darkest entertainment moments from 1903 Topsy the elephant spent twenty-five years suffering abuse in circuses after being smuggled from Southeast Asia as a baby When she killed a man who burned her trunk with a cigar, Luna Park owners decided she had to die
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