The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-25

Brattleboro Man Arrested for Distrib-
uting vials Containing Substance
Said to Be Foundation for Booze
Hearing Next Monday.
When experts disagree it is up to
the state laboratory The analytical
chemists of that state institution are
now delving into the mysteries Of the
contents of several small vials, which
contents have been verbally adver-
tised by Emidio Pelligrino to make
whiskey when mixed with water.
This statement Is slightly different
from the advertised prescription print
ed on the labels, but if Pelligrino had
said " alcohol and water and sugar
i his method would have been identical
with that Of the manufacturer of the
sundrv connections.
States Attorney o. B. Hughes re-
ceived information yesterday after
noon that an Italian was offering small
vials containing some mixture that he
claimed would make whiskey when
mixed with water. The state s attOr-
ney, not being expert in such things,
decided that someone must be putting
over a new method of booze distribu-
tion and he put Sheriff q. J.. Mann on
the trail.
The sheriff hied himself out to the
4. Alciers'' district of Guilford and
there obtained bottle that Pelligri-
no had left saving that he would can
for the pay another day. Then the
officer hunted up the distributor of the
new patent method of making whis-
KEY from the concentrated essence Of
something and aqua pura and pinch
ed him.
The sheriff is down for an address
at the meeting of the Sheriffs assO-
cation on Search and Seizure, and he
seized upon this occasion to make
search He returned and announced
to the STATE IS attorney that he had
more than so bottles, - and the state s
2 attorney trailed by a representative
of The Reformer, hiked for the muni-
cipal court room to inspect the eollec-
. tion of bottles.
. The sheriff had Il ee real bottles,
all man s size. Two Of them were
; nearly full OF a white liquid and one
t had contents that resembled lin ap-
pearance only real red eye. Having
: decorated the top of the attorneys
+ table in the court room with those,
tile sheriff began TO produce the
more than so bottles He took
them from his vest pockets, the pock-
cts of his overcoat and from those OF
, his undercoat and trousers.
{ His auditors greeted his efforts with
shouts of laughter. Pattering foot
steps sounded in the corridor of Cros-
: bv block and experts began to
gather. Eevrvone. as he carefully in
spected the labels and directions on
the small vials, solemnly admitted
+ that this is a new one
= The sheriff, having done his duty,
n remarked that be never before had 80
= little to show when he had seized any
" thing One young woman, employed
Il. In the block. who had migrated TO the
= room because Of the hilarious dis
r turbance announced that she consider
is ed it pretty small business for a
grown man TO be in and departed
:. Immediately, while the spectators
X laughed at the sheriff s expense.
IS The labels were all green, regardless
ne of the color of the contents of the
nj small walls Directions were printed
r IN italian and in English on each. Ev
s. crvone present was able TO read the
u large letters on some of them and pro
= nounee the words like - Whiskey
= Rum. : and .Cognae Brandy, but
: some Of the others had Italian names
On the one labeled ''whiskey' weT,
the following directions in Englisl
and, supposedly, in Italian: Dissolve
this flavor in one-half quart Of alec
N hol, one-half quart Of water, one tea
spoonful sugar In small letters ap
peared: Limitation flavor, artificialll
Of colored.' = On the bottom Of the labe
es was .'Alilano Extract Co, Ney
he York
ew Judge Frank T. Barber s eye sight
his cd the big bottle containing red fluid
va lie allowed that looked TO him like IL
his real thing. He shifted and was doubt
he full. Clerk G. Menzies Miller admit
NJ. ted that the color might be right
but said that if it was il was the onl
right thing about it. The Reforme
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