New-York tribune., 1919-12-30
Six Held Here
AS Leaders i'm
Whisky Deal
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setts. The other two barrels Panarelli
sold to Bronx bootlegger, with 4
saloon in 15Oth Street His name has
not been revealed, but Colonel Porter
says he ought to have a medal for dis
tinguishcd service.
Wood Alcohol Discovery Made
These distributions all occurre
December 20, which fell on Saturday.
The Bronx bootlegger came down to
Greenwich Village on Monday, Decem-
Der %, to sec Panarelli lie was
greatly excited and drawing bottle
of coorless liquid from his overcoat
pocket, shook it under Panarelli's nose
and swore that the two barrels eor
which he had paid $4,000 contained
poison. wood alcohol.
Panarelli did not stop to argue, but
took the sample to a druggist and ex-
planned that he thought the bottle
might contain wood alcohol. The drug
glst shook the contents, poured trfle
on his hands and shifted at his fin
gers.
ITS wood alcohol" Panarcll said
the druggist told him. He says the
druggist also gave him the address Of
a chemist in Tenth Avenue who could
give him positive answer. Panarelli
returned to his shop and put in n
long distance call for Salsberg ~
Hartford. He told him not to sell any
of "the last Shipment"
Asks for Refund
Salsbcrg wanted to know why and
Panarelli explained Salsberg said he
had sold barrel to a dealer in Chico
pee, Mass, and also smaller quanti-
ties to other dealers in Hartford, but
that he would try to get hold of all
of 1t. At the same time he told Pana-
relli he expected to be reimbursed for
the $1,000 he had paid for the three
barrels and for his expenses. Panarelli
pleaded with him not to argue about
such details, but to round up all the
poison.
At 3 O'Clock that afternoon the chem
ist made his report. The bottle. he said
contained wood alcohol. Panarelli put
IN another long distance telephone call
for Salsberg at Hartford He renewed
his pleas to the Connecticut bootlegger
to round up all the supposed spirits he
had sold, ard Salsberg said he was
doing his best
Panarelli spent q couple of restless
nights, and on Wednesday afternoon.
the day before Christmas, received a
visit from Salsberg, who Informed him
that he had recovered most of the stuff
that had been sod in Hartford and
half of the barrel that had been sent
to Chicopce
Closes His Store and Waits
That other half barrel had been
sold" he told Panarelli. Then Sails
oerg started back to Hartford, and Pan
,f+
store, locked the front door securely
with two padlocks, asked the traffic
policeman at the corner Of Seventh
Avenue and Bleecker Street to hale a
taxlcab fer him, and went into hiding.
He had received $3.50 barrel as brok-
erage fee on the deal.
Christmas Day Panarel!i spent in read.
ing newspapers. The day after Christ
mas he found what he was looking for
accounts of the death of many per
sons IN Connecticut and Massachusetts
from drinking wool alcohol, colored and
sold as whisky. Panarclli remained in
hiding. Sunday morning the newspa-
pers that were brought to him con-
tanned his name as the seller of the
poison. He sought a lawyer, and final
y retained Mr.. Gritfiths, and late Sun
day night, on the advice Of counsel
surrendered to Revenue Agent Dobbs
TO whom he said:
For Gods sake don't take me to
Connecticut They would lynch me-"
William Smith died at Bellevue Hos
pital last night Of supposed alcohol
poisoning. He lived in the lodging
house and saloon at 252 Fulton Street.
in which four men who were poisoned
by whisky" died in the last two days
The body or man believed to be
Harry Barlage, forty years old, a
longshoreman, was found yesterday iii
lodging house in 1888 West Street
DR.. Benjamin Schwartz, assistant
medical examiner, after a pre-
liminary examination, said death ap-
parently was due to poisoning from wood
alcohol. An autopsy will be performed
to-day. The tenth death from supposed
wood alcohol poisoning in Newark in
two weeks occurred yesterday when
Edward Klein, fifty years old, Of TIC
Bergen Street. died in the City Hos
pital. He became i'll in his home yes
terday morning.
Autopsies performed yesterday by
nr. Schwartz also established that wood
alcohol caused the death Sunday Of
Michael +. McGowan. ffty-seven years
old, laborer, and John Varehl, fifty
five years old, of 125 West Street.
Mrs. Catherine Molnar, Of Passa,c.
\. j.. died in General Hospital there
Yesterday, aud hospital physicians said