New-York tribune., 1919-12-31
Police of Passaic Raid
All Saloons in City and
ConGscate All Liquor;
6 Dead in Philadelphia
Bio Stock Found
In Brooklyn nCarage
Enough Deadly Alcohol to
Kill 10000 Men Taken
by Federal Officers

Despite efforts of Federal agents
and local police to stamp out the
sale of wood alcohol as beverage,
the poison killed twelve more per
sons In the East yesterday.
Six drank the deadly liquid in
Philadelphia and succumbed. Six
more died from the same cause in
Passaic, n. j.
In the latter town the police last
4 night took extreme measures to pre-
vent spread of the menace. All
A;aloons in the city were raided and
Tevery drop of liquor found was con-
4 fscated.
Eighteen Barrels Seized
Federal agents in New York City
seized eighteen barrels of denatured
alcohol, containing 10 per cent wood
alcohol. This was found on a truck
in a Brooklyn garage. Two men
we're arrested in connection with the
case.
Colonel Daniel L. Porter, supervis-
ing Internal Revenue agent, said the
conhscated liquor, if consumed as
whisky, might have killed 10000
men.
Colonel Porter refused to make
public the names of the two men ar
rested. saying he expected other ar
rests to follow and hoped within the
next few days to have every wood
alcohol vendor in the city in custody.
Local police and Federal agents
arrested two more men last night.
They were Edward G. Ware, of 1870
State Street, Brooklyn, brother-in-
law to Samuel x. Saleeby, a chemist
arrested Saturday, and Salvatore
EsposiJo, OF 1870 Mulberry Street,
who ran a butcher shop at III Mott
Street, where two men were arrested
the day before yesterday. The men
were held for further Investigation.
Besides the six dead in Passaic,
|anothcr saloonkeeper, probably is
Nying.
! The police, led by Chief Gustav
Schmidt, went about their work
thoroughly There are more than
"a hundred saloons and hotel bar
rooms in Passaic. These were ran
sacked. All booze found was loaded
into trucks and patrol wagons and
carted to Police Headquarters.
Liquor To Be Analyxed
All Of the contiscated liquor will
be analyzed fox wood alcohol. Early
yesterday morping there were
thousand bottles and several kegs OF
booze in headcuacters with more
coming in every hour.
If / have the power" Commits
sioner Preiskel said last night, 81
am going to keep every saloon in this
town closed until after New Years
Day. Under the provisions of an
act dealing with unusual menaces to
a community I believe that l have
that power
Those dead are Michael Molnar,
of 1T Passaic Street; Joseph Bliss,
OF ~ Passaic Street; Joseph Cigaro,
of 1913 Passaic Street; Stephen Bliss,
OF 60 Wall Street, and Martin Du-
dack, Of lO2 Passaic Street
All are said to have obtained their
liquor at a saloon on Second Street.
Joseph Sudol, saloonkeeper, will be
arrested on charge of manslaugh-
ter if he lives. Last night he was
blind and in coma from drinking
wood alcohol.
Eighteen Barrels Seized
Two Internal Revenue agents seeking
evidence Of violations of wartime pro-
hibition in an East Side saloon yester-
day afternoon overheard conversa-
tion between the bartender and a dray-
man and gained information that led to
the seizure of eighteen barrels of de-
natured alcohol Colonel Daniel l..
Porter, supervising Internal Rvenue
agent said last night that if this poi
son had been consumed as whisky 1t
mghs easily have killed 10000 men.
Colonel Porter refused to divulge the
iones Of two men arrested in connec-
ion with the seizure because, he said,
is men hoped to round up every indi-
iidual connected with the plot to sell
ne deadly mixture over New York
BARS He said late last night these ar
rests probably would be made within
| few hours.
How Revenue Men Work
Two of his men had just saluted each |