Benson's Wild Animal Farm #3

Scan10032, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. This poor quality picture is the most interesting one of today's set. Whoever sent this to my dad wrote on the back; ""Kay" just two days after arriving at Bensons from Hagenbeck in Germany, May 24th 1929. She is now in the Evansville, Indiana Zoo." This brings to mind an event in the 1950's that I wish I could remember more clearly. About 1955 our elephant act was booked to play the Evansville Shrine Circus at the High School Gym but a day or so prior to leaving Hugo to play the date, my dad received a call that "Kay" had just killed the Zoo Director. He was told to wait until further notice since there was a big hue and cry about the event and they may decide to go without elephants but in any event, we would be paid. The next day we were told to come on and the date was done uneventfully. Now here is the part that is unclear. Half way thru the date an elephant man arrived to pick up Kay from the Zoo (Jimmy O'Dell?) on the behalf of (Roy Bible?). Anyway, he came to the building and asked for my dad's opinion saying that the event would take place the following morning. I wanted to witness the operation but my father put a stop to that right away. I had only been around elephants a couple of years at that point and would want to get involved and probably get my hat blocked. The strangest thing tho, is that I later heard from several people, the full details of that day's exciting events but for some reason, have lost all memory of their descriptions.