Friday, October 19, 2007

Black Diamond #4


Scan000010339, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Curley Prickett several days after the Corsicana tragedy.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please forgive me, I have been "out of pocket" for quite a while now" but, what was the incident? Did Black Diamond kill someone? Thanks, Annie

Buckles said...

In the simplest terms, on Oct. 12, 1929 in Corsicanna, Texas when the elephants was being led to the lot, a woman bystander was attacked and killed by "Diamond".
He was ordered to be executed by John Ringling four days later in Kennedy, Texas.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Annie & Buckels...I was curious, too.
:-)
Cindy Potter

Anonymous said...

Read all about it-- google "black diamond elephant" and find a myriad of stories . . .