| Show WENT deliberately TO DEATH circumstances of case cage all point to suicide of elephant an agra india correspondent sen a remarkable story concerning what la Is declared to be the deliberate suicide of 0 an elephant the great annual mela or fair at in the northwest proy licea Is heldon held on the bank of 0 tle jamna which Is there crossed by a bridge ot of boats at the side side of 0 the river opposite the fair there is a slope down which the elephants bringing visitors tots to the bridge slide Into the river and swim across A gouni yo ung elephant making the trip for the arst farst ti time lm trumpeted angrily when his trappings were stripped from him preparatory to his swim but seeing other elephants crossing the stream bead of him he plunged in and followed when lie be r reached the opposite bank however lie swerved around and swam back again the mahout sought to force him around again but without reu result tilt and when within a yard or two of the bank the elephant after trumpeting again plunged down into the river just in the nick of time tile the mahout mahaut was rescued by means of a long bamboo but the elephant was di owned drowned to all appearance by his own deliberate act |
