Show ELEPHANT CURSE SEEN IN TRAG TRAGEDY ED Death ot of Mahout Heart Bears Out Oriental Tradition London A mn mysterious tragedy which oriental tradition links with the curse curle of the sacred elephant confronts London pollee polke Coincident with the In of Ia In n n a sacred white while Said All Alida II n famous M iii mahout win Will found much mutilated In ha his quarters nt at the London ZOO roo At the some slime time lime Sandy Wee n 11 se mahout ma ma- bout hout was discovered Injured and tow lies In a London ho hospital lie III was found under A Alls All's II's window en Eden persons least nd addicted dieted to BU- BU were pondering the ancient belief of the ast 1181 that misfortune follows fol fol- follows lows with certain footsteps when R n white elephant Is taken from Its own country Fol these animals are supposed sup Slip suppo po posed ed to 10 he be the reincarnation of Bud BUll dim and a III as such mien worshiped h hy by certain sects of Orientals Two Taro years ago the white elephant Ia Pa Wa on n which the king ol of Slam had bestowed a R tit title I t was brought to the London Lt too son from the east With him came Sandy Wee Pa Pu PaWa PaWn Wn Wa later was taken on u i. tour of ol America by Sandy Wee and then sent I Ito to Calcutta while Sand Sandy returned to I Ithe the London zoo Said Sold All was called the finest elephant elephant fie ele ele- ele trainer In the world and h ho he and I Sandy Randy Wee lived hived together In a 0 little I room at the zoo When the tragedy I was discovered a pickax and sledge sledgehammer sledgehammer I hammer lay beside Alls All's body mute route evidence ns as to how he be was killed billed Sandy Wee knew of the legendary curse Whether be he and his companion believed It or not they they knew that many of their countrymen did and that It was being said even eyeD the return of Ta pa Wa to his own land could not wipe out oat the Insult of taking him away Said Alt All because of his uncanny control over elephants was brought from India to handle the bad elephant whose temper baffled zoo roo authorities The Moslem won over the huge beast from the moment she same saw him |