Little Diamond at Bill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show)

Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) Little Diamond at Bill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show)

Diamond on the left and Jap/Japino on the right.
† Little Diamond
ID Number:
Species: Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:Male ♂, unknown maybe about years old (estimated age)
Dead date: † 1927-09-30
Death reason: unknown:
Location:Bill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show)
ArrivedBill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show) 1922-00-00
from Orange Brothers and Moon Brothers (Newton)
Orange Brothers and Moon Brothers (Newton) 1913-00-00
from Bill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show)
Bill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show) 1925-00-00
from Lucky Bill Wagon Show
Lucky Bill Wagon Show 1923-00-00
from Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus 1913-00-00
from William P Hall Animal Farm
Born: wild
Document updated2012-01-20: death date
2013-04-19: text BC box.
Records about Little Diamond from Bob Cline
DIAMOND ( Little )
Male Asian
1914 to 1915 - Wm. P. Hall farm
1916 to 1922 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1923 to 1927 - Honest Bill Show
Died - Sept. 30, 1927 in Orick, CA.



Records about Little Diamond from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
DIAMOND (one tusk)
1912 Wm. P. Hall Animal Farm
1913-22 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1923-24 Lucky Bill Newton Show
1925 Honest Bill Newton Show
1926 Orange Bros. & Moon Bros. (Newton)
1927 Honest Bill Newton Show
(Died 9/30/27 at Orek, California)

This "Diamond" was added to the H-W herd following the 1913 Peru flood.
My dad was on the show in 1922 and mentioned him to me several times, he said that as far as he knew he only grew one tusk.
I think the Newtons lost several, if not all of their elephants, in an epidemic of Hoof & Mouth disease in California.



Sources, among others

  • http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2008/07/to-john-pult.html

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