In America, in 1916, a female elephant was sentenced to death; the speechless elephant was hanged in front of thousands of people.

New Delhi Online Desk. You must have heard about humans being hanged, but on this earth, a female elephant was publicly hanged. The elephant was accused of killing her mahout by crushing him with her feet. This punishment was given to a mute animal in America about 106 years ago. A crane that could lift 100 tons of weight was arranged to hang the female elephant. Two dozen executioners were called and they hanged the female elephant in front of thousands of people.

The elephant's name was 'Mary'

The elephant was very simple and used to work in Charlie Spawn's circus. The elephant's name was 'Mary'. Charlie Spawn ran a circus named Sparks World Famous Show in Tennessee. There were many animals in that circus, including this Asian elephant named Mary. It is said that Mary's mahout had left the circus for some reason, and in his place another mahout was appointed. The new mahout did not know much about Mary. Therefore, he was unable to control Mary. Meanwhile, a parade was organized in the city for the promotion of the circus, in which Mary along with many animals and circus artists participated.

demand for death penalty

During the promotion parade, Mary saw something to eat and started moving fast towards it. The new mahout tried his best to stop her, but Mary did not stop. During this, the new mahout stabbed her behind the ear to stop her, which angered Mary and she threw the mahout down and crushed him with her feet. As soon as the mahout died, there was a ruckus all around. The elephant was caught and imprisoned inside a huge cage. Meanwhile, people started demanding death penalty for her, articles in Mary's name started getting published in newspapers, which talked about giving her death penalty.

Executioners were arranged

People also started threatening the circus owner Charlie Spark that if he did not give death penalty to Mary, they would not allow any circus to be held in the city. At the same time, people started making plans and giving ideas to kill Mary. In which there was talk of giving death penalty to Mary through electric shock, and sometimes there was talk of crushing her in front of a train. Seeing the uproar increasing, the government had to decide that Mary would be given death penalty. The government took the help of the police. Some officials made a plan to hang the elephants. Arrangements for executioners were made.

arrange a crane 

On the order of the government, the police-administration arranged a crane capable of lifting 100 tons of weight to hang the elephant. Then the elephant was hanged in front of thousands of people on 13 September 1916. At that time, a large number of people in America supported the hanging of the elephant. But if we talk about today's time, then this is considered the most cruel example of humanity towards animals in history. Now laws have been made for the protection of mute animals. In India, there is a provision of strict punishment for attacking mute animals.