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Maine's Game Wardens Cite Circus' Elephant Handler.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004

By Katherine Cassidy, Bangor Daily News, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 9--EASTPORT, Maine -- Game wardens issued a citation Monday evening to the elephant handler working for a circus traveling through Maine for having failed to obtain an importation permit for three elephants.

Maine's deputy game warden said Tuesday that the contracted elephant handler for the Walker Bros. Circus has been told to leave the state immediately.

The circus, which has been performing in towns across the state in the last week, set up in Calais for two shows Tuesday evening and two more this evening. Although the elephants were held out of Tuesday's shows, the handler believed he would receive a permit in time for Wednesday's shows....

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