Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on May 3, 1901.
Brute Is Then Given Strychnine and Shot to Death.
    Henry Hoffman, elephant man of Benjamin Wallace’s circus, was killed by “Charlie,” a monster tusk elephant, and the beast was then put to death. Hoffman and his men had all the elephant’s in the Mississinewa River at circus quarters, three miles from Peru, Ind., to water, when “Charlie” attacked Hoffman, threw him in the air and then buried him under his tusks and feet in midstream. An apple filled with strychnine was given the elephant, and he was chased over surrounding farms by Joe Lichtel with a Winchester. After twenty shots the animal died. “Charlie” killed three men when with Lapearl’s show.
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