New-York tribune., 1919-12-28

p1y arrangement with Mayor Richard
!: klnse!a was admitted to St.
Francis Hospital and the Hartford
hospital to make special examinations
OF the surviving victims who have
been stricken blind.
samples of the poisonous liquid
nave been sent by Collector Walsh to
noston' where the government has
stationed an expert from the Wash
ington Bureau of Chem strv. If the
analysis disclcscs the presumed wood
alcohol, the Internal Revenue Depary-
ment will have one of two cases
against the shipper, neither of them
very strong. The worst that might
.appen to him is a So 600 fine and
i've years in prison if he should be
convicted of selling wood alcohol for
beverage purposes. AS to charges OF
MURDER. m2nslaughter or crmnal
negligence against the four Hartford
prisoners. understood that so ouck-
y did the victims die that the detec-
ives in most cases wer unable to
OBTAIN such ante mortcms statements
as Wou Id make sure case against the
accused.
l3 Dead in Hartford
over night. three men died, making
the Hartford total thirteen. Six are
III but expected to recover. Four will
be permanently blind. States ATTORNEY
Hugh NJ. Alcorn is having the Hart
tcrd medical examiner, Dr.. Henry Nj.
Costello. perform autopsies on the
oodieS of the thirteen victims He is
sted by Toxicologist Dr.. Arthur J
Wolff
State Chemist DR.. f. NJ. Bailey re-
ported tonight TO Prosecutor Alex
ander Creedon. of Hartford, that sam
pies of LIQUOR submitted contained
wood alcohol
1t was explained here tonight that
although the confessions of the Hart
lord prisoners named Panarelli as the
conslgNor Of the mixture, it was pos
sIble that the actual point Of shipmen.
was somewhere in the Bronx and that
The trucks for Hartford were loaded
near City Island In the police court
to-day. Attorney Benedict NJ Holden
@ppeared as counsel for Frank Rose
and later it was rum morcd that Rose
might turn states evidence His son
says that Rose received a telegram
warning him not TO touch the shp
ment and that he was reluctantly CON
vinced only when his bartender, now
dead, drank some.
inc last man TO die to-day was
'ennie Persky a cobbler, who accepted
-wo drinks from a man whose shoes
he was repairing
Forty-6vc. Dead in Three Towns
CHiCOPEE, Mass. Dec c7.-Earlv
this evening The death list resulting
from the drinking Of a poisonous fluid.
stated this afternoon by Medical yx-
aminer Samuel I. Fletcher to be wood
alcohol contained in mixture sold as
whisky, had reached forty-fve in this
city, Springfield, Greenfield and
Holyoke.
District Attorney John H. schoo-
maker. Of Ware, was notified this eve
ming by Greenfield physician Of the
hrst death from poisoning in the latter
town
As the figures stand at present
thlrty-two Chicopee men and two
women, three Springfield men and one
woman and six Holyoke mon and one
Greenfield man have died Of the poison
ing, besides the thirteen reported this
afternoon in Hartford.
District Attorney Joseph B. Ely of
Westfield spent the entire day con
ducting an Investigation, in which sew
eral saloonkeepers and hotel owners in
this city and IIolyoke were questioned
Alexander Perry, owner Of the Amer
can House in Chicopee Falls, who was
held under $4,000 on charge OF
mans aughter after pleading guilty,
was questioned at length by the Dis
trict Attorney
Eight More Dead in Chicago