An Elephant Detects a Thief

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 29, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 47.

An Elephant Detects a Thief

Surely elephants know something. The New York Telegram tells us that the other day a lady was standing before the elephant-house in the Zoo, New York City, while they were feeding the large elephant Sultana, when suddenly she gripped the woman's wrist so strongly that the woman screamed; then looking down to her hand-bag that she was holding in that hand, she saw it open, and a man exploring its contents. She grasped the stranger's hand, whereupon the elephant released her hold upon her wrist. The crowd surrounded the man, and he was arrested.