The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-27

brought in" He announced that MT. Mclaughlin would leave imme- 1 diately for Hartford, Conn.,, and oth-
 CT New England points ito investf- 1 gate reports crediting the Bronx aa | being the source of supply of this 1 poisoned fluid.
 Hartford, Dec 27-ThiTteen deaths 1 in Hartford were marked up this l morning as the result of the whole l sale selling of wood alcohol by | ';:whfskey ring m this city. l Jacob Bonerwine. Frank Rose, l Saul Joseph and Nathan Sa1sberg, 1 charged by the police with murder in connection with the affair, had their | cases continued to Wednesday with l out bail when they were brought be- i fore pOTce court this morning. Bene- l dict M. Holden. who appears for Rose
 and Judge Joseph P. Futile, for the
 other accused. did not oppose the re quest of the prosecutor for this action, but served notice that they would ob- ject to further postponements of the | police court end the affair on We'd nesday.
 We know, of course that this thing l has none of the elements of murder 1 in it,either of first degree or of sec ond degree murder Mir Holden said l "but we don't want to do anything that will hamper the police in mak- | ing a full investigation of the case.'' l Benny Persky of S3 Portland St. died from effects of wood alcohol
 poisoning at the Hartford hospital 1 this morning. He was the thirteenth 1 victim. An hour before that Joseph 1 SebaStion, 35, had died in St. Francis 1 hospital from the same cause. Michael Yusko, 35 years old, of 275 | Windsor street, believed to be proprie- tor of the saloon on Windsor street. drank some of the connection which he sold to others, the police learned l Yusko, one of the first to go to a hos pitaL will probably recover. The fact l that he drank some of the mixture i the police say, shows he did not know what it was, and he will probably not i be prosecuted. Yusko was the only one questioned by the police who re- fused to make a statement.
 It was learned today that three l Italians living in the Bronx borough l of New York city sold the barrels to
 the four men in this city. The police 1 investigation has developed the fact | that to each barrel of the original 1 concoGtion a barrel of water was ad- 1 ded before sales were made here and ! before any of the mixture was shipped to Holyoke and Chicopee. Mass. Iriny Botuck of 22 Bellevue street | driver of the truck which police cap l tured as it was about to take some of the mixture away from Roses sa- | loon Thursday night was held today 1 in bonds of $500 for hearing next | Wednesday, He Is charged with Yio- | lating the liquor law.
 Chicopee, Mass, Dec. 27-The
 death list due to drinking poisonous
 liquor up to this noon in this city HolyOke and Springfield totaIled 36, 1 with additions expected hourly. Of this number 27 men and one l woman belonged in Chicopee; six in 1 Holyoke and two in Springfie Of l the fifteen cases sent to Mercy hos pital in Springfield all but one have i died, and it was said that the re- maining one could live but a few
 hours. Acting Marshal A. T. Caron | of the Chicopee police expressed the | belief that the death list in Chico pee would go close to fifty before all cases had been accounted for. OficeTe here were provided with
 warrants today and ordered to search
 all suspected places. Five of the
 seven additional deaths reported here since yesterday were of men who be- | came i'll in their homes and the police l believe there may be many other cases
 of sickness of the same kind not yet reported The seven who died early today were Wlfred Lassonde, Adolph Charland and Joseph OartkIe, who
 were taken to a Springfield hospital; Joseph Levendusky, Joseph Jackus, | Joseph Sebhla and a native of Poland, not named. Medical Examiner F'let- 1 cher announced that autopsies per
 formed during the night indicated that death had been caused by wood al cohoI-
 Alexander Perry, proprietor of the American House where the police be- lieYed many of the victims obtained the liquor, gave Himself up to the p-o- lice today. He. his brother Charles, 1 and William Baker, a bartender at 1 the hotel, were arraigned and charged | with manslaughter. All pleaded not guilty and they were held in S1O,000
 bonds each for a hearing. Technical
 charges of selling liquor Illegally also i were placed against them.
 Thomas Oczkwysai, proprietor of a
 saloon in Chicopee Center, also was placed under arrest charged with
 manslaughter. He has not been ar
 raigned.
 Chicago, Dec. 27-Five victims of l wood alcohol, poisoning are dead 1 here, the sixth is dying and several
 
 of Christmas orgies
 Federal and local authorities open
 ed vigorous investigation today to
 fix responsibility for the sale of the poison
 Cleveland, Dec. 27-Nine new vic | tims of wood alcohol poisoning were
 in Cleveland hospitals today, raising
 the weeks total of sufferers from
 drinking the whiskey substitute to 24
 In the same period three deaths have
 been attributed to wood or denatured
 alcohol poisoning, placing the fatal
 ity toll for the month at IA. Vida Ozaniz is under arrest today
 charged with murder and is said by
 Sheriff Hanratty to have confessed
 shooting Nichols Osdrich, 30, of West
 Park, a boarder, following the drink
 ing of home made whiskey and
 fight at Christmas day celebration.
 Osdrich's body was found late yester-
 day.