Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-31
ANALYzE BRAINS
Of FIVE VICTIMS
Perfume and Furniture Polish
Manufacturers Arc Now
Under Fire.
FIVE VICTIMS ARE ADDED
Philadelphia Reports Finding
Three Women and Ono Man
Dead in Room.

NEW YORK. Dec 1c.-l'tye addi.
iional deaths and scores OF arrests
oriehy summarized tho wood alcohol
situation at midnlGnt. \ survey shows
mat the concoct!ou caused the greatest
destruction in four states New York.
New jersey, Massachusetts aud Con-
Two score of Federal officers we're
dispatched tonight on a hun, thro,i;: Il
Sreater New York ana ;diaccnt terri.
cry for poison liquor. Manufacturers
tracts and furniture polish wcrc in
estiFntcd on a wholesale oasis TO nail
.o"n nonpcTcraE" alcohol In an effor-,
20 prevent rrcnrrcuee OF Christmas
wood lcohol tragedies.
,oth tndi,.pm'i hari ~, nrr@sts wero predicted
iory: Chemical analysis or the brains
,I,cs, ~ nSe ,,dn nsn who died after drinking
alcohol caused their deaths
Find Enough to KIN 10000
\ conversation between n bartender
ana dTarnan. overheard by two in
'"Tnni revenue agents III an Eas; Sid,
Stlooh' icd tonight 10 tho seizure ~
eighteen barrels of dcna;urcd alcohol
ana the arrest OF two mon In Erool,lvu.
n"!onei I'anici l.. Porter, supervising
internal revenue agent, said If ;hr
poisoned liquor had been consumed ;ts
mnisky IL would easily have killed %
icing withheld. Colonel Porter added.
Hht'i '!iS men have rounded up sc,,rai
",nsrs ,ri,h WI" arc beliGGycd to be connected
WIN plot 10 sell the deadly luiloI
over Now York bars
Thc drayman aud his assistant. ac.
.SrdinS 10 colonel Porter. told him ,.al
ihcE hsd delivered four barrels % am.
last nast Sidc saloonkccpcr who. when hc
!iScovored that he had paid 200 TOR
Po1Son' Ths declared ne deal off
hnI
part IN the deal, but that they had
sivan Incorporation which he hoped
and who had Ii lRI.. the drny1ncn las;
sunday night
Trio Held In New York
N.,,e,a ,,yni' pt Vito Joseph GiuseppI and
hlSht when officers discovered 500
sa.lons oi vine on their premises. wcn>
ihIns" yioIainn IN ~ e6nft 6 today eharssd Win
'ct AMI held in $500 bail each FOR hear
inSs January :.
!, New IoTlS. New Jersey and New Eng
,tlo "l'cliiS were In conference on
'1r wood alcohol situation late in thn
%ayi Ia, ana 10, a @ wider and deeper lnvcsti-
nc in poison. it was announced =, ~
Internal revenue office.
ne qualifications OF the organization
alcohoi ''whisky.'. cansins .co- 20 wood
TTea,hs. emoraces four states@New
oonn,ec,,c,,, o1n, ncw 'erscy, Massachusc,ts and
.hl ing attorney for the city OF Hart,
iord cenn.; made this stat6mcn, Eerc
5lmIted ststss t'ot.owinS Rssts conference with
iorncy Mulquecn. Jr. lie added ,;,at
. Ifm'Iaaiiion -, ,I papers for Connecticut viii
run;ber '"e exact
Find Four Dead in Room.
nhi!doctphia tonight reported III.
Nh III, COS 80 "t three @ women and ono man
mouse from alcoholic poisoninr hu,
M.cther i was wood a!cohoi has not
!ot been determined.
chicago today reportad ~. ro,r
l%cnth death since Christmas from tbe
hhncets cree, OF wool alcohol. The victim had
i Ch-istmas rvs s,a,cS nnr, participating in
Passaic, n. j.. added four more 20
Tin" liz "ea1n a1d '%ii oil, today while fifth is
No!hcrs re reported in n dangerous cor.
&uiti9n as result Of drinking n WOOD
a<Gohol concoction.
John Preechnewciz a tailor. ,o,d b;
aWifc lust before he died That he had
taken two drinks in a saloon. and whn..
brother., in st. Mary's Hospital both
noisoncd' and the saioonkeeper blind.
poiicc. say he VIII be charged with man
slsughtcr. According TO The police SUI
dol has been selling home-madc ..wbis
More Arrests in New Haven.
+ In New Haven, Conn. six more .r
rests were made during the day. No
ado'tional deaths had been reported.
ING list remaining At sixteen in tho
STATE, thirteen of them in Hartford.
TIen gallons Of wood alcohol and still
were confiscitnd "
sam Darling and Max Saunders were
arrested IN Chicopce, Mass, on charges
ni menslaughter growing out OF the
large number OF deaths in the Conncc-
v v. a hHi in6
900 bond each Wv
Another important move was made
today IN Washington when Commits
sioner Roper asked Congress to enact
!egisiat tlon snbjecting the manufacture
ana safe OF wood alcohol to the same
restrictions as grain alcohol.