Gypsy

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When Gypsy, a circus elephant, trampled her keeper to death on November 22, 1902, and went on a wild rampage through the streets of Valdosta, Chief of Police Calvin Dampier and a posse of citizens spent part of one night tracking the enraged animal. The following day Dampier brought the elephant down with a shot from his rifle. Here he poses atop the dead elephant.

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