The evening world., 1919-12-29
q $50 ~


key Of wood alcohol and unloading Il
in the holiday season was get-rich-
quick scheme in which many were
.ind ala engaged. The Panarelli out
ht appears TO have been the most ex-
Nensive operators. We shah not ar
ralgn the men under arrest and to be
arrested until We have tho case
complete and We are rapidly round
ing IL up.
APPLICATIONS IN SHOALS FOR
PERFUME FACTORY PERMITS.
Anybody with $50 can go 10 the
Revenue Department, pay $50, put up
a bond and get a permit to manufac-
ture cologne OF hair tonic with bs-
els Of non-beverage alcohol Appli-
cants for such permits have been
coming in shoals. BY means Of auto
truck deliveries cleveriy camoIrfiaged
IL rs comparatively easy 20 ship the
aiIered whiskey hundreds OF miles
and there appears 70 be a ready mar
ket for IT,"
Returns coming in to-day indicate
that wood alcohol whiskey was sold
extensively in New Jersey and up
state as well as In Connecticut and
Massachusetts. ono death-that Of
Michael Vansa or No. sis Westfold
Avenue, Roselle. N. J.-and five cases
OF severe illness in Roselle and Roselle
Park and other parts Of Union County.
caused BY Indulgence in wood alcohol
Whiskey. were reported to-day.
Eight additional deaths from wood
alcohol poisoning were reported TO-
day in Massachusetts, and the poison
was bought IN this city. Federal and
municipal authorities in Connecticut
and Massachusetts have twenty-eigh.
men in custody on charges Of murder
or homicide associated with the dis
tribution and sale OF wood alcohol
whiskey.
Warnings against indulgence in
wood alcohol whiskey. spread broad
cast following the discovery of the
Panarelli conspiracy, have undoubt-
eddy saved hundreds Of lives. but the
danger Is stu acute for the warnings
cannot reach everybody and reports
from various points indicate that nu-
merous victims have drunk wood al
cohol knowing II was wood alcohol
whiskey.
Romanelli and saleeby, the Brook
lyn undertaken and druggist, were
arrested last night at their places OF
business by Revenue Agent II. b.
Dobbs on information given by
Panarelli. Evidence Is at hand show
ing that the men who distributed the
poison which caused SO many deaths
in Connecticut and Massachusetts,
had their headquarters in Hartford.
SHIPPED RAW TO HARTFORD
AND REcTIFiE0 THERE.
The stun was shipped raw 70 Hart
ford from this city by motor truck
and was "rectifed" there by one Saul
Joseph. The rcctincation consisted
Of the addition OF water. burnt sugar
and prune juice or other coloring
matter. Each barrel OF raw spirit
produced two barrels Of "rectihed"
'whiskey.
A former service man who de-
scribed himself as Frank Murray
OF Brooklyn"-later on he said his
name isn't Frank-fen unconscious in
the ONCE Of the Health Department
at Pearl and Centre Streets at noon
to-day in the midst OF his report that
che thought he had been poisoned by
wood alcohol in an Oak street sa-
loon. After physicians had worked
'.A6ver him for several minutes with
kilittle apparent success he was re-
moved in an ambulance TO the Vol
.,nnteer Hospital.
Murray very well dressed and APP
phrently about 80. had called on
Hugh Taylor, chief OF the Bureau OF
Food and Drug Inspection.
:. shortly after l took a drink" he
said. II began to feel queer. 1t was in
foak Street. began to spit blood
and, remembering the stories about
wood alcohol, drought the best thing
10 do was TO come TO you, Ny name
q, is" And teen he toppled over
AuglOT Sent a hurry call lot puy'
sicians in other departments and DIT
z p. ]. Econon came from the hospital
After five or ten minutes the stranger
was revived. He couldn't or wouldn'
answer questions and appeared TO b,
ntn a daze. He recalled nothing abou
Oak Street and didn't know where h,
was. He was, however. able 10 walk
Before he went to the ambuls nc,
no said his name was Frank Murray
Then ne said 1t wasn't Frank. II,
had lived in Brooklyn all his life, h
said, but couldn't say where. HI
wore a service button and said he hat
been injured in the war The physi
clans failed TO detect any odor o
wood alcohol.
As "A practical measure Of cooper
alton all patrolmen were ordered to
day TO take into custody any me
apparently intoxicated on thei
beats" and use every means to lear
from them where they had bee
drinking; 60 take them 10 the plac
where they had been drinking and I