—Well, at least Edison didn’t electrocute it.-—
I assume you’re referring to what happened to Topsy at Coney Island.
That one really makes me sad.
Doesn’t it, though. I would say that Edison was a sick you-know-what, but given that I first found out about that on one of those Nikolai Tesla worship sites, I’m inclined to take it with a few grains of salt.
Which is to say, Edison might have done it, but odds are there were another dozen or so ‘inventors’ who wished they’d thought of it first. He probably didn’t hold a monopoly on sick you-know-whattery.