The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-28
CORONOR'S COCKTAILS Send
HALF A HUNDRED CHRISTMAS
MERRY MAKERS TO MORCUES
Three Men at Chicopee, Mass,
Are Held in $4,000 Bail
Charged With Manslaughter.
ITALIAN BAND BLAMED .
New York Police Believe They
Have Located Makers of
Wood Alcohol Base Whiskey.

tectIYeS VINO are seeking the source
Z whiskey manufactured from wood
aeohol which caused scores of deaths
the east last two days, tonight ex-
Eessed the opinion that hundreds of
arrels of poisoned liquor were made
hGe by a band of Italians and shipped
% Connecticut and nearby states
hey predicted scores arrests will be
nade They made this prediction aft
G raid on what is believed to be
N Illicit still.
Eleven bottles marked ssWhiskey
flavor and .Whiskey Extract" many
more bottles ontaining ingredients
lsed in the manufacture of Italian
and Spanish cordials were discov-
nd, according to the police
One arrest was made. Autopsies
ebay showed two deaths in New York
his week from wood alcohol poison
ag
Chicago, Dec. 27.-Four persons
tvo men, and two women died to-
hy from drinking wood alcohol, max
ing eight deaths in Chicago in the
ast forty-eight hours and thirty-four
since July l, from what Coroner Hoff-
nan terms ''Coroners Cocktails" Two
druggists have been arrested.
Chicopee. Mass, Dec. 27.-The
drinking of whiskey with a wood al
cohoI base had caused the deaths of
"a persons in Connecticut valley cities
loday The list of victims mounted
during the day with reports from this
city Holycoke, Springfield, and Hart !
oil hx- @1,
uncoetion marketed for Christmas
tsstiyities were seriously i'll, blinded
.w dying.
The victims in this city this after
noon numbered thirty, including one
woman; in Springfield four; Holyoke
seven, and Hartford thirteen.
Hartford, Conn, Dec. 27-Thirteen |
persons have died here from what ap-
yeared to be wood alcohol poisoning
up to noon today. /
Jacob Bronerwine, Frank Rose, Saul .
Joseph and Nathan Salisberg are un-
der arrest 10 connection with the |
deaths. The first two named own |
saloons and in them or from them |
men now dead are alleged to have OBJ |!
aimed liquor for their holiday mer |
rymaking. The hearings on the COM /
plants today were postponed until /
Wednesday.
Newark, y. J.. Dec. 27.-Wood al
cohol poisoning today caused the |
dath of two persons at the city hos +
pital, bringing the death list from
hat cause to five during the last +
tTo weeks.
Three persons, including two sa-
Donkeepers. are under arrest in con- t
lection with the deaths.
Chicopee, Mass, Dec. 27.-Alexan-
der Perry, proprietor of the hotel
Where the police believed many of the
Eletims obtained the liquor. gave him
self up to the police today. He. his
Brother Charles, and William Baker.
I bartender, We're arraigned charged +
With manslaughter. All pleaded not
guilty and We're held in $4,000 bonds I
aeh for a hearing. Technical charges =
selling liquor Illegally also We're
Eaced against them. District Attor-
-y Ely refused to accept bail for
alexander Perry and Thomas Oczkwy-
M proprietor of saloon in Chicopee
enter also was placed under arrest
oday charged with manslaughter.
/ The stomach of six bodies on which +
sl'opsies We're performed will be sent
g laboratory for analysis and until
ae result of this is obtained, no con-
aasiFe statement will be forthcom-
4s from DIR. S. E. Fletcher, medical {,
nminer, beyond that in all the cases
Halch he has examined there We're
Snptoms of wood alcohol poisoning.
Detroit, Dec. 2T.-While records of .
ae police department here show at
sast twenty deaths due to the drink
as Of home brewed .'whiskey" since
ssptember l last, none has been re-
'erted here during the last few days,
was stated today.