"The Day They Hanged an Elephant in East Tennessee"
Mary the Elephant killed her handler Red Eldridge in Kingsport, Tennessee on September 12, 1916The website explains that although no one denies Mary killed Eldridge, no one knows how or why for certain. It goes on to offer numerous theories as to how and why gathered from the oral-history tapes from the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University. On September 13, 1916 more than 2,500 people were present to watch Mary hanged from a Derrick Car 1400.
(according to www.blueridgecountry.com/archive/mary-the-elephant.html)
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