The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, in that same article mentioned above, summed up the incredulity, writing, “The Coney Island police, who have the reputation of being wide awake, declare they saw no elephants, snakes or anything wandering through the streets this morning, and they wonder how it is that, if the elephants did get out, two of them got back without the other.” Now, just a year and a half later, Thompson was technically missing three of his elephants. Photo in public domain from Wikimedia Commons. Thompson made headlines a year earlier in 1903 when he electrocuted one of his elephants, Topsy, at Luna Park in front of hundreds of spectators, in a horrendous and very public act of animal cruelty. The elephant, Alice, belonged to Frederick Thompson of Luna Park in Coney Island, across the Narrows in Brooklyn.
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