New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-25
Three Women Dead and
Two Critically III from
Poison at Wedding.
HOMEMADE DRINK
BRIDEGROOM'S TREAT
Police Believe COncOCtiOn Con.
tanned Wood AlCohOl-AutOpsy
and InqueSts Ordered.

Three women are dead and two dam
gerously i'll from drinking a homemade
wine at a Spring street wedding feast
on Sunday last The wine, the police
say. was made by Carmine J. Coliro,
the bridegroom, and was drunk by the
women among the two hundred guests
as toasts to the bride. Angelina -.
Maglionica. Of No. 81 Oak street.
There were two toasts The first
WAS of red wine and the second of 4
green liquor. Colino's recipe for the
beverages. the police say, was:
Red wine-Sugar, water alcohol and
red rose"
Green wine-Susar water pepper
mint and alcohol.
There will be chemical analyses OF
the stomachs OF the three victims oil
the concoctions to-day. Captain Frank
Gallagher. of the detective department.
and Lucien Breckenridge. Assistant
District Attorney. are investigating
Colmo's rart in the wholesale poison
ing. After the autopsies are held ac-
ton may be taken. The following we'd
ding guests arc dead:
DEAN. Helen T.. thirty years old. No. $50
N,et f4fth street Taken i'll early Mon
day morning after her return from inc
welding Died At 1880 yesterday al hef
home
DEAN. Madeline. twenty-eght years Old
f. IN 70
inc Died yesterday afternoon at $50
O'Clock in Lincoln Hospital.
pETSCOLI. Mary. thirty-three years old -"
1O2 India strict Greenpont. Taken iu
early Monday morning DIED MONDAY
Two Seriously III.
Those known TO be seriously ill from
the effects Of the wine are:
O'RRlEN. Anna twenty-six. so. - Ferry
street. Taken violently III early MonoaF
and treated by D.. Joseph I. J. Nannlns'
No So olive street. Condition improved.
LONZ. Ms. Josephine. mother or the bride
groom. High street Brooklyn. seriously
H.
Colino's treat 10 his guests who gath
cred at Kenmare Hall. No. 80 Spring
street. is suspected TO have contained
wood alcohol instead Of the vegetable
fluid. The wedding ceremony was per
formed at st. Joachim's Catholic
Church. no. "A Roosevelt street. and at
its conclusion the guests adjourned 10
the hall for refreshments.
Hazel Dean. a sister Of the two dead
girls and daughter Of John Dean,
tailor. said yesterday that she drank
the same amount of the stuff az her
sisters. TO wit, two glasses, and that
she felt no evil results from ii.
Or. Edwin c. Rowe. of No. 200 Alex
ander avenue. who treated the Dean
girls. suspected they were suffering
from pto aine poison. DR.. Slavin, OF
Lincoln Hospital. who ordered Madeline
taken there after Helen had died at her
home. diagnosed the case the same
way. but DR.. John Fiegelman, COR
oner's physician. pronounced death 10
he due 10 alcoholism.
Autopsy To Be Hold.
He said that he suspected wood alco-
hol had been used in the drinks the
girl had taken. and will to-day hold his
autopsy.
Mary Driscoll. the other woman 10
die was the first TO succumb. She was
taken sick early Monday, and during
The afternoon. while her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Dennis Driscoll, was away from
home. she became critically i'll. When
ber hrother got home he called DR..
Rober, Stevenson, OF No. - India
street
Colino. the bridegroom. is paper
box cutter. employed by the Cherouny
Printing and Publishing Company oi
No. IL Nandewater street. He has
been living at No. 2l1 Sullivan street.
-. L., 49,. fi,-ee with his bride