Word: bjork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pool inside the big, concrete-barred elephant paddock he splashed and whooshed for two hours one hot morning last week, part of the time with one of the cows. Then Keeper Ed Brown decided to part them, take Wally to a small separate paddock. He asked Keeper Rudolph Bjork to hold back the cows...
...first thing I knew about the trou ble," said Keeper Bjork afterward, "was when I heard Ed swear-and then I looked over that way. Wally had him on the ground with his left front foot on him and was trumpeting and stamping. He stamped and kicked at Ed and then dug his one tusk deep into Ed's body and jerked his head upward-ripping and slashing. He didn't lift Ed off the ground, but just gored him with a vicious ripping motion...
...elephants began to squeal and stamp. Throughout the zoo rose a jungle din of roars, howls, screams, snarls. Rudolph Bjork and another keeper seized an iron rod and an elephant hook, began beating and prodding at the maddened beast through the paddock bars. His little eyes bloodred, Wally flourished his trunk at them, went on stamp'ng and gouging his victim. Guards scurried up, stood with rifles cocked to shoot the female elephants if they should stampede. It was too late to do anything for Ed Brown. His body was in four pieces when the keepers finally drove Wally...