The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-30

NEIHHAvEENE1zHI ARRESTED TO-DAY
 0H SUSPIC.0N
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(COntinue3 from Page O1e) 1 heart failure. Detectives learned that in each case whis.-ey had been drunk i by them. Tn none of the three cases : are the wood alcohol symptoms market to any degree and il will be necessary for the medical examiner to make a new report. In the case of i John Cou=hlin. however. who bought WhjslzeE. the almost total blindness is ! regarded as 8 sign Of poisoning He also claims to have bought liquor at COffey's place.
 Hartford, Conn. Dec. 30-The first ] arrest on a federal warrant in the ] wood alcohol poisoning cases in this section of Connecticut was made to- ] day when Deputy U. :. Marshal Tim i othy A. Mccarthy served a warrant upon Leonard Montana Of Thompson vile chargtus him with violation of . the war time prohibition act by sell ing distilled spirits for beverage pur- : poses.
 Montana was brought before U. s. : Commissioner Frederic J. Corbett ia ! this city, arraig1ed by Assistant Dis ! trict Attorney George II. Cohen and [ held under $5.oo0 bonds for exam inatiCn at a future date. An at ! tempt is being made to secure bail. 1 Montana. it is alleged by federal ! officials, bought five gallons of the l poisonous l.uor from Jacob Broner- ! wine of Hartford Sor $t+0. but when l he tasted it he did not like it and tel ] ephoned Br0nerwine he was going to ! bring t back. It is sad Bronerwine 1 advised that he sell it to some one else. The federal officials say Nor ! tanO admits he sold the five gallons for $145 to John Z-gnOnt of Thomp- | sonviLe, who -s seriously il from i drinking a part Of it, and George R.aumOnaska and John NayoroWsk; are dead from drinking :. part of the five gallons which they bought from i ligmont. Monrano and zigmont have | both been under arrest by the Thomp- sonvilIe police.
 AdoIph PanareIIi, the New York grocer from whose place was shipped the wood alcohol whiskey which po- lice of Connecticut and Massachusetts say caused the deaths of nearly so
 people in the Connecticut valley will
 proba bIy be brought to Hartford to-
 night to stand trial on Q charge Of
 murder in connection with the cases.
 From the office Of Colonel Daniel
 Porter. supervising revenue agent for
 New York. came word today that Prosecuting Attorney Alex " Cree
 don Of Hartford who is in New York with the intention of bringing Pa nareIli here, would be allowed to get his man after federal agents had brought him over the line into Con necticut The precedent for this was
 established Monday night when '. s
 Marshall Palmer took five New Ha. ven men, alleged violatOrs of the war
 time prohibition act, over the line
 into 9iaSsa chusetts and then released them to the Chicopee police
 -17r ', T., the federal authorities over shipping adulterated olive oil 10 customers iE this state and hundreds of gallons from his place have f3ean seized by U. s. Marshals. He has been in Hart ford and New Haven to claim in court
 some of the seized goods and the pen
 alties. Much of his 'oIive on'' was
 returned to him.
 The removal to Massachusetts of cipals in the makingand selling of the poison left the local authorities only a number of minor matters to look up. It was while running t1own state
 m nents of men examined by Coroner Mix that they ran into the Anlato end. Paris, Dec. Difficulties arising l between the Allie and Germany con- cesrning the transportation of Allied | troops to regions where plebsicites will be held were removed at a con
 ference of experts held yesterday, says the Journal.