The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-29
PARANEL-LI BECS NOT ID BE SENT
 TO THIS STATE
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 ''I am glad you got me. will tell all I know, but for Gods sake don't send me to Connecticut. I don't want to be lynched- Ny name has been published in all the papers and 1t would mean certain death.
 The men are beng held in com- municado during the 43 hours which will elapse before they are arraigned before a United States comniss: oner
 Bail of $50. 900 for i1nnl led:ate release of Panareni already has been refused, MT. Porter said. When the men are arraigned, Mr, Porter declared. he would ask the commissioner to set the ba3l at $500 for each defendant.
 Twenty revenue agents today made a careful search of the premises on Bleecker street occupied by Panareri and took away with them everything that would have the slightest bearing on the case.
 According to D0b-,s, PanarelIi in explanation. said that he had been appToache1 by a man named Solsbers Of HartfC4'G, Conn. Q. friend of his, to procure some Christmas '-3OUze.'' Pan are1li then got tn-o ccr1nunication with Rom8neui. Dcbbs said. and finally Sateeby, the druggist.
 When interviewed by newspaper men at police headquarters Pana- reli said he believed that 70 barrels of the ''wl :sHcy'' had beon shipped to Hartford, each barrel containing be- tween +0 and 59 gallons. The price paid was from SLGG9 to Sl.5p1 a barrel
 Two more cases of wood aIcoho, poisoning were reported td@2y by the police James Besman, A9 years old whs found unconscious on West 18th street last night and taken 10 9 hos pitaL, where his condition is reported as serious. Sarah Hart. 2, also was taken to q hospital but she will re- cover.
 New Haven, Dee. 29-Lnterest in the wood alcohol "whiskey'' cases in this state centered today on police ac- tivities in connection with the sale of poisonous liquor. Fourten persons are under arrest Gn Connecticut as a result of charges growing out of the distribution and sale of beyera geS said to contain wood alcohol
 Marshal A. T. Caron of Chicopee, Mass, was here last night with war rants charging murder against four Of the men arrested yesterday. Chief of Police Smith told the Massachu- cts official that the men must remain in jail in New Haven until legal steps are taken for their eEtradir.On to Massa chustts. This may meet obsta- cles, as the police declare none Of the men held here has been in the Bay State, although they are alleged to have shipped four barrels of liquor from New Haven to Chicopee.
 Don1inck Perrotti, one of the six held here, is said by the police to have manufactured liquor in still in Westville and sold it to Meriden sa- Ioonkeepers. The police are trying to connect the sale of this liquor with the death of Mrs William c. Williams in Meriden, yesterday.
 Four men charged with murder and three charged with transDorting poisonous liquor in motor trucks, are held in Hartford, and 2 saloOnkeeper in ThOmpsOnyilIe is under arrest.
 Hartford, Conn, Dec. 29---saIoons in Hartford closed today following q request from Chief of Police Garrett J Farrell that they stop sales of every sort for an indefinite period because of wood alcohol poisoning in the Con- necticut valley which up to this morn ing had resulted in nearI 80 deaths.
 Prosecuting Attorney Alexander ". Ureedon went to New York today to see Adolph PanereIli and others of the ''whiskey ring arrested in that city and he will Seek to eNtradice them to Hartford on charges Of murder.
 The arrests in New Haven. Chico pee, Folyoke and New York mean that this gang should be rounded up. and so far as getting parties respon- stble is concerned the case IS about cleaned up," said Mir. Creedon.
 a-~r}7 was continued in this vicinity today for persons connected with the traffic in poisonous liquor which has result ed In the last few days in at least 57 deaths and many cases of serious ill., ness here and nearby places. The death toll at an early hoour today was divided as follows: Chicopee, ST, in cIudtng 2 women; Holyoke, 10; Springfield, 4, including l woman; HadIey, 3; Greenfield l. and Thomp- sonviIle, Conn. 2.
 Fourteen arl ests of those alleged 70 have handled the liquor, which was found to contain a wood alcohol base, have been made and others were ex- pected. Most of the liquor, ship ped from Hartford, Conn.,. to other Connecticut valley cities, has been accounted for, the authorities said, and they believed that few more cases of illness would be reported.
 Investigations conducted by feder- al, state and local police have re- yealed many violations of the prohibi- ton law, it was said, and arrests were expected on this score. Many illicit stills, kitchen bars and private stocks from which sales had been made, were discovered, it was re- ported.
 Thornpsonvife, Conn, Dec. D. Leonard Montana. a liquor dealer, pleaded guilty today to the charge of making an illegal sale of Hcuor on December 22- Sentenece was delayed until Friday awaiting possible action by the federal authorities in conneo-