On September 13, 1916, the town of Erwin, Tennessee, hung ‘Murderous Mary’ the elephant after she mauled one of her keepers to death the day before.
This is actually a macabre story of murder and revenge between an elephant and its inexperienced keeper. And it surely features the only elephant in history ever to have been hanged!
This horrifying story starts when Charlie Sparks’s circus train arrived in the small town of Kingsport, about 40 miles from Erwin, a booming American railroad town.
absenteereality 
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