The four other elephants were eventually recaptured.May 25, 1983: In Atlantic City, New Jersey, an elephant, Frieda, owned by Clyde-Beatty Cole Brothers Circusseriously injured John Marshall of Mystic Islands. One of the male elephants was crushed to death. The elephants ran toward a coal pit and plunged off a 25-footledge. \"The animal was being harassed and he was just protecting himself,\" said metro-DadeCounty homicide detective Woody Geisler.May 13, 1982: In Sallisaw, Oklahoma, five elephants bolted from the Carson and Barnes Circus while employees werepreparing to move their equipment for another show. Sharp waspronounced death at the hospital. According to newspaper reports, Dolly crumpled quickly in death and the pit wasfilled in over her huge body.Late 1980: A 1,500 pound baby elephant gored to death an animal handler who had prodded her with an axe handle.The 3-1/2-year-old African, a female named Charlie, pinned William David Sharp against the side of her plywood pen.The elephant gored Sharp at least twice in the abdomen with her four-inch tusks, puncturing his aorta. Three days later Dolly was led into a pit.Despite protests from animal lovers all over the nation and from several zoos that wanted her, the 27-year-old elephantwas given a huge dose of cyanide. At the Sarasota, Floridawinter quarters of Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus, Dolly snatched Edwin Rogers Schooley from the sideof his horrified parents and crushed his head with one of her ponderous feet. CIRCUS & RIDE ELEPHANT INCIDENTSMarch 26, 1950: Dolly the circus elephant paid with her life for killing a 5-year-old boy.
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