One Elephant Caught Sunday

from _The Cranbrook Courier_, August 19, 1926 (p1)

ONE ELEPHANT CAUGHT SUNDAY - Tillie Finally Yields to Coaxing of Keepers -
Others Still at Large
Spotted by Indians and finally coaxed back into civilization by her
keepers. Tillie, one of the female elephants escaped from the Sells-Floto
circus two weeks ago, was brought into the stockyards here on Sunday.
Contrary to general expectations, Tillie, though restless, exhibited no
inclination to attack Dooley and Cheerful Gardiner, sent for by the circus
management to assist in effecting her capture. It is now believed that
Charlie Ed and Myrtle will also submit when the circus men finally come up
with them.
Last reports are to the effect that Charlie Ed and Myrtle are ranging
in the vicinity of the Finlayson ranch on the Gold Creek road. Several
people state their having sighted one or other of the animals in that
locality. Word may be forthcoming at any time that Charlie Ed and Myrtle
are on their way to join Tillie in the stockyard corrals.
Jack Terrill, general manager of the Sells-Floto circus, returned to
Cranbrook from Seattle this week, and has taken charge of the hunt for the
missing elephants, relieving J.A. Ironsides who has acted as agent of the
circus during Mr. Terrill's absence.
Mr. Terrill is distinctly annoyed at the circulation of impossible
stories in respect of the chase of the missing pachyderms. One paper had
it that one of the animals had been captured by a Kootenay squaw who had
baited her giant captive with apples. The Calgary Herald stated that the
animals had been drugged prior to their leaving Edmonton, said drugging
being attributed to spite work on the part of circus employees. Neither
story bears the slightest semblance to fact. Nor is it true that the
keepers of the elephants are cruel in the extreme in their handling of the
animals. As a matter of fact they dare not be. Elephants, as is well
known, respond to kindness rather than cruelty and are quick to resent ill
treatment. The memory of an elephant is proverbially long.