On the occasion of a weekly market of American traveling circus Bell & Myers made on 27 June 1866 in Murten station and gave the following day an idea. Attraction were two trained elephants, female and one male, who presented feats. In the early hours of the male elephant killed his supplying it for 14 years guards and ran out of his property, a municipal depot in the Murten streets. The persecution by the circus operators and their supporting Morat citizen was unsuccessful. Some time ran not untameable animals back and forth, creating with the locals rioting. He succeeded his pursuers, enclose the elephant through the barricades in an alley. The circus owner decided to have him killed. Around noon of June 29 was an ordered is in Freiburg cannon, brought and fired a six-pounder ammunition in position. The bullet struck the animal death, it died instantly. After the killed mahouts had been buried in the afternoon on the Murten cemetery, the circus moved on and left the carcass of the elephant to the citizens of Murten. The flesh of the animal was sold to the citizens of the city for consumption. The elephant skin was prepared to exhibit the pachyderms to entry can. To this end, a pavilion was built. However, the City Council saw an exhibition not as profitable and sold the stuffed elephant together with the separately prepared skeleton ans Museum Bern. The pavilion was demolished.

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