Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-13
WERE TREATED BY A
SUI. POSED FRIEND
I,ven Drinks of What is Now Be
lieved to Have Been Wood
Alcohol
TRAGEDY CASTS PAIL
OVER ELEVENTH WARD
All of the Victims Lived IN That
Part of Town and Were Highly
Respected.

Asa rcsnlt 81 drinking hound believed
- hayc been wood alcohol Edward AYERS
nnlrhcrtv - wear, old, nos MARYLAND
avenue. and Icsac Hall r. 026 Marshal
street ~, dead AZ thcir homes and tourl
others William lInlcv. ! Strorid street
UnrrN GreenwcU Percy DcuCkson and
Roy Chambers All luug ~ the same
.1ttsrc. ~ Ilfth avenue below Duncan
street atr hattlrc for their lVcs
With IN, death ~ tho i've Young men.
ana tho runcal condition ~ the other
fa,r + paIl ~ gloom rests over the Flcv-
enth wnri Tho DouChCrtv home o.
pe.4epl + the scene - great sorrow
H. faur young children the Youngest
f.pr months oll. qrr continually calling
f,r fh,qr father and the wio. - years nt
age + ~ stratcd
Ai,etsr, surrounds tho distribution II
ihr tals austs- lguid however, Mrs.
Nar Whalcu ruthcr-in-lav ~ Doughor-
II tbs morning made the following state
urrt to reporter ~ l-vcrV tvenlng
tdwnri better known ~ DOC lett
the hons, shortly after supper Ncdrcs-
lu, evening Saving that 70 'ntcndeu
scr,pg about small Job winch nc had
l,srn asked ta a. Having e. cross the
railrond and n the virtmtN ot he marsh,
y, Thought +, hest - take his g'rn. for
there - rlertv 81 game n the Slcinriv ON
m, wsv he stopped n O.DonnCl' : saloon,
II Cedar and Brown streets amt there
met the other vounr mon who sad they
would e. with HIM After reaching tho
railroad and within short distance oi
the marph thev we're approached hv
man = ho offered the hays bottle. Soy
er.l tasted ~ the beverage and CN-
pertrr eng no SERIOUS result the rest shared
With them and the outcome ls what you
now sec
Mr. Whalen with tears IN hcr cyes,
.aid that Mr. Doughertv was unable to
tel who the man was. hut that he was a
white man
polsoN T,nOk UFFTCT THURSDAY.
ltwas not unit THURSDAY morning that
DourhertN rnall7cd v hat had happened
,nd Dr Lewis Chapman llS2 Mary
land avenue. was summorcd FvcrNtmng
pnssihlo was done g. prolonE llic toW-
ever after gring t'talN hnd the patient
fe,l UNCONSCIOUS ami dicd Yesterday about
noon
In tho case 81 Hall practically the same
conditions existed aud ~ dind vest' rdaN
fferuoon az - clock N the Delaware
uospifaI flr y NeC p.lev 4lD West
fourth street Va, summoned a the tall
home Yesterday uoruirg ard tln.ing the
man m agony aid practically blind, had
hln removed tn hospital lie died
within ~, hoars at"i bong admitted.
The coudltl1a 9. " .lism Haley this
morning Is understood = he critical and
his death = expected - ANY moment
Tho rrmauag tArce ucn. All al Their
homes. arr als suffering great pam As
Wood alcohol p1~oulIE generally acts
between the first da1 AND a period OF two
weeks The, maN have lighting chance
or ihelf i've,
That wood alcohol. the most deadly Of
All drinks Is beng SOLID u. tins city i'
the belief q; resident, not oIiv N thf
Eleventh ward but IL other sections 81 tht
etv and strenuous effort on part OF both
fht pohc, aud prohibition agents VIII ht
made O. rouud d, I'D guilty persons
Doughtrts Va- i brcklaNcr bv trade
but iurug ID, past lew months had been
io.ne aul, ~ma. odd l1hs The funeral
Vn be held Tic~day morning with ser
,4ces 81 - Elizabeth hirrh and m
tcruelt Ia the new Cathedral cemetery.