Show ISEE SEE ELEPHANT SLAIN I Crowd Watches Poisoning and Electrocution of Topsy the Mankiller New York Jan 4 At Coney Island to today today today day several hundred d spectators witnessed the he execution by electricity of Topsy an anI I elephant who had hed killed three men and durbar It was attended by Lord Curzon had recently become unmanageable of or potassium had been administered con concealed concealed concealed in a carrot a current of volts was turned on through copper plates on which the animal stood Almost instantly the elephant fell tell and at the end of ten seconds when the current curr nt was turned off of I was pronounced to be dead An autopsy showed that the thc poison polson had not had time to take effect |