New Britain herald., 1919-12-27

Hartford, Dec. 27.-A death toll of 54 in Massachusetts cities of the Con- necticut valley, 8 in Hartford was marked up this morning as tho result of the wholesale selling of wood alco- hol by a "wfiskey ring" in this city.
 Jacob Bronerwine, Frank Rose, Saul Joseph and Nathan Salsberg, charged by the police with murder in connection with the affair, had their cases continued to Wednesday without bail when they were brought before police court this morning. Benedict M. Holden, who appears for Rose, and Judge Joseph P. Futile for the other accused, did not oppose the request of the prosecutor for this action, but served notice that they would object to further postpone ments of the police court end of the affair on Wednesday,.
 We know, of course, that this thing has none of the clements of murder in it, either of first degree or of sec ond degree murder" MT. Holden said, "but we don't want to do anything that will hamper the police in making a full investiga ton of the case.'
 Benny Persky .2S years old, of S3 Portland street, died from effects of wood alcohol poisoning at the Hart ford hospital this morning. He was the 18th victim. An hour before that Joseph Sebastian, 35. had died in St. Francis hospital from the same cause.
 May Recover.
 Michael Yus1o, 35 years old of 275 Windsor street, believed to be the proprietor of the saloon on Wind e,f, 1Yn o1r of coction which he sold to others, the police learned. Yusko, one of the first to go to a hospital, will prob ably recover. The fact that he drank some of the mixture, the. police say, shows he did not know what it was, and he will probably not be prose cuted. Yusko was the only one ques- toned by the police who refused to make a statement.
 Came From New York.
 It was learned today that three Italians living in the Bronx borough of New York city sold the barrels to the four men in this city. The police station has developed the fact that to each barrel of the original connection barrel of water was add cd before sales were made here and before any of the mixture was shipped to Holyoke and Chicopee, Mass IT, wing Botucko of 22 Bellevue street, driver of the truck which the police captured as it was about to take some of the mixture away from Roses sa- loon Thursday night was held today in bonds of $500 for hearing next Wednesday. He is charged with vio- lating the liquor law.
 Max Mulutnech, George Kross and Aizsenty Goroshko, who died at St. Francis hospital during the night, told Sergeant Madiean that they bought the liquor in the saloon on tho northeast corner of Windsor and Avon streets and that Iusko sold it to them. They said they paid 50 cents ;l drink for it and that they bought a quart bottle of the concoction for which they paid s75o Marcus Parienshuk, of Donald street, who is i'll at St. Francis hospital, told Madigan thal he also bought two or three drinks and secured a quart bottle for S750.
 May Turn States Evidence.
 There were reports around police station this morning that Rose would turn states evidence and when ar raigned in superior court would try to put the blame on the other three men.
 The police regard Bronerwine as the leader in the whiskey ring. They say he has made S75,000 out of illegal sales since July i.
 Two gallon jugs of mixture be- lieved to be similar to that which caused the death of people in this and other cities were taken from the Bronerwine saloon on Friday after noon and taken to the detective bu- reau, in police headquarters.