http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/09/28/15117/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=15117 Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State Sun, 19 May 2013 23:54:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/09/28/15117/comment-page-1/#comment-914110 Abby Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:36:27 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=15117#comment-914110 Maybe people should leave wild animals in the wild where they belong. It’s irresponsible and dangerous to the public to have them in urban areas with large crowds. Not much has changed in since 1880.

]]> http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/09/28/15117/comment-page-1/#comment-908699 David Fall Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:32:52 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=15117#comment-908699 The Chief was lucky, nothing was done to him. Muderous Mary, also a circus elephant, was convicted of killing her trainer in Kingsport, Tennessee. She was transported to Erwin, Tennessee, on the CC&O Railroad and hung by the neck with a railroad derrick crane-the only means locally available for a humane disposal of her at the time, September 13, 1916

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