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Show TOPSY WILL BE JANGED Famous Baby Elephant of Twenty Years Ago Becomes Be-comes a'Man-Killcr. NEW YORK, Jan. 3. Topsy, "the pet of thousands' of children when, as a famous "baby elephanC she first toured this country with Adam Fore-paugh's Fore-paugh's circus, twenty years ago, is to be hanged at Luna park. Coney island. The former pet has become a man-killer and her owners have decided that she must be destroyed. Topsy has killed four men within the past few years. John "Whiting, the only man who can control Topsy, left the employ of her owners recently and no one can be found who will undertake to care for her. A noose of two-Inch manlla rope will be employed to kill her. |