Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
POISON LIQUOR
DEATHS INCREASE
Total for Connecticut Valley Not
Including Hartford Is So
HartfOrd's List Numbers 13
Many Serious Cases
SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE
Six Men Arc Taken Into Custody mt
Hartford and Four Others mt Chico
pee. Holyokc and Spring ld-TNvo
barrels Of Mixture Seized

Chicopec. Mass. Dec. 2S.--United
States Marshal Edward ]. Leyden to.
day arrested four men, from Chicopee
Holyoke and Springfield on fedora
warrants charging them with viola
ton of the wartime prohibition act
and illegal transportation of liquor
from State to State. The arrests result
ed from his investigation into the
deaths of more than so persons in the
Connecticut valley from drinking wood
alcohol contained in a mixture sold as
whiskcy. One arrest was made by the
Thompsonville, Conn, police.
Four more deaths had resulted since
early this morning from alcoholic
poisoning. three in Holyoke and one in
Chicopee. bringing the. total for the
Connecticut valley. not including Hart
ford. to So. divided as wollows:
Chicopee &c. including two women
Holyoke, nine: Springfield four. includ
ing one woman; Greenfield one and
Thompsonville two.
Those under arrest on the federal
warrants are John Nasaizewski of
Chicopee and Harry Shapiro of Spring
field, truck drivers who are charged
with bringing the liquor into the val
ley while Adam Ostrowski and John
w. Starzyk both of Holyoke, are
charged with violation of the wartime
prohibition act.
The Thompsonvile arrest was
Leonard Montana, a saloon keeper of
that town, who is charged with lille
gally selling liquor
Marshall Alfred r. Caron Of the Chic
opee police left this afternoon for New
Haven Conn, with warrants charging
murder against four men who have
been arrested in that city.
Although several new cases were re-
ported to-day in the valley, the num-
Der decreased considerably over Fri
day and Saturday. In Holyoke, the
largest increase developed giving the
impression that some of the poisonous
liquor bought in that city may have
been consumed since Friday, when the
first signs of the poisoning became
evident Scattering cases of poisoning
symptoms were reported in this city
and Springfield.
New Haven, Conn, Dec. 2S.-Six men
were arrested here to-day in connection
with the sale of wood alcohol "whiskey"
which they are alleged to have shipped
from this city to Chicopee. Mass.
The arrests were made at the request
Of District Attorney Joseph B. Ely of
Westfield, Mass, who telegraphed that
the men are wanted for homicide in
Massachusetts"
The arrests were made by A. r. Foote.
Massachusetts, commissioner of public
safety, three Massachusetts State police
men and local police and revenue agents
An illicit liquor still was found and seized
in Westville
Two barrels Of compound believed
to contain wood alcohol We're confiscated
in barn just outside of the city.
According to the police, four barrels of
liquor were shipped from the barn to
Chicopee. The six men held are alleged
to have been the owners of the liquor
stored in the barn. They received 81, $50
a barrel for the four barrels sent to
Chicopee, it is said.
Chicago. Dec. 8.-Another death was re-
ported to-day as the result Of drinking
poison liquor death, Chicagos total Of
Christmas poisonings to date number
nine, or 30 since July /.
Hartford. Conn, Dec. 2s-No additional
deaths from wood alcohol poisoning were
here to-day, the list of dead
at 49, Two more victims Of
poisonous liquor were listed in hospitals,
making eight. four of whom were re-
ported tonight in a critical condition
Another death was added to the Con-
necticut total to-day when a woman died
at Meriden from the effects Of poisonous
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