Show the lady idy and tho the Ele elephant pliant the london courts will be called upon soon to decide oneff one of the most curious cases that ever puzzled legal brains A lady was seated a few weeks ago ag 0 in the zoological garden and for tys sake removed moved from her pocket to her lap a purse containing six sovereigns bovre g the show elephant shortly afterward came on its round and mistaking the brown purse tor for a bun gracefully transferred it to its trunk and thence into its stomach the management of chegar the gardens gardena were at once appealed to and emet les were applied but no more than two of the sovereigns and munched bits of the purse were recovered the solicit solicitors ora for the my lady are now therefore anig suing tho the zoological society for the missing four sovereigns and seeing that the society possesses the elephant and tile e elephant le possesses the sovereigns the plaintiff claims to have a clear case london chronicle |