The Dhaka Times Desk On September 23, 1961, a rare event took place in the history of the world, because on this day, the first and last elephant was executed by hanging. Today we will know that story in detail.
The incident happened in the American city of Tennis, an elephant named Mary was working in a circus group there. Mary used to amaze people with her amazing tricks in the circus. Just to see Mary, there was a lot of excitement in the circus. And the name of this circus group was Charlie Sparks. The owner of the troupe removed the elephants' old mahout and hired a new employee, Red Eldricks, to look after the elephants and perform the circus with the elephants.
Red was not very experienced with elephants. Being a new employee, he did not understand the behavior of elephants. One day the circus shows up sitting on top of the Red Mary while the game is on. Everything is going well, Mary is entertaining the audience by raising both legs and resting on her hind legs. But the mahout Red kept hitting Mary's ears unnecessarily with an iron spike. At one point Mary's temper rises and she drags Red down and stomps him to death.
The incident sparked an anti-Mari movement throughout the circus premises and the city. One demand of all is to arm the killer elephant. Otherwise the movement will not stop. A man is worth more than an elephant. No one was going to a Charlie Sparks show. The circus troupe is about to close. The circus owner couldn't convince the public that Mary was guilty of killing Red as much as Red worked to anger Mary, so Mary became angry. Mary is a lazy creature, not her fault. But people did not understand it.
In the end, the circus owner decided to kill Mary, but how? This huge Asian elephant was so big that everyone had to think a lot about the method of execution. In the end it was decided that Mary would be hanged from a crane. So huge cranes were brought in. All the angry citizens of the city were invited. Everyone was excited to witness a gruesome murder. The anger of revenge is raging in everyone's eyes. Marie was finally tied to a crane hook with a huge chain.
The moment the crane was activated, Mary was lifted up 20 feet in one pull. Mary is so healthy that she breaks the chain of the crane and falls 20 feet. Mary's spine was broken. The leg was broken, the throat was cut and bleeding profusely. But the people! No one's mind melted, and Mary was tied to the crane's chain. It is not allowed to stop, the punishment must be ensured.
In the next attempt, Mary dies by tripping over the gallows chain. In fact, Mary did not die, the humanity of people was hanged on the chain that day. We are Ashraful Makluqat, the best creatures in creation, and we sometimes do things that make us even lower than the worst creatures in creation.
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