Republican farmer., 1920-01-02

Pin" of Wood Alcohol
 Traffic - Deaths In-
 creasing.
 PARANELLI-1 pge one blk i New York, Dec. 29-Three men-an undertaken, drug gist and a liquor deaIer-faced charges before a United States Commissioner here this morn ing in connection with the spreading of wood alcohol as
 Whiskey through five states in the last ten days, death and blindness following in it's wake. The men arrested late last night and early today by Daniel L. Porter supervising revenue agent here, and
 H. B. Dobbs. federal agent, are:
 Adolph Panarelli, Manhattan wine and liquor dealer
 John RomaneIli, Brooklyn under.
 taler.
 Samuel K. saIeeby, a Brooklyn druggist.
 Romanelli, according to Dobbs, is
 the king pin" in the wood alcohol
 traffic. Panarelli, who, according td
 the federal agents, made a clean | breast of his part in handling the | beverage, said, when arrested:
 T am glad you got me. I will tell
 all I know, but for Gods sake don't
 send me to Connecticut. I don't | want to be lynched. My name has
 been published in all the papers and
 it would mean certain death.''
 The men are being held in con-
 municado during the AS hours which
 will elapse before they are arraigned
 before a United States commissioner
 Bail of $50, 900 for immediate release
 of Panarelli already has been refused,
 MT. Porter said. When the men are
 arraigned, MT. Porter declared. he
 would ask the commissioner to set the , bail at s50,000 for each defendant. , Twenty revenue agents today made careful search of the premises on
 Bleecker street occupied by Panarelli and took away with them everything , that would have the slightest bea ring
 on the case.
 According to Dobbs, Panareli. in
 explanation, said that he had been approached by man named Solsberg , of Hartford, Conn.,, a friend of his to
 procure some Christmas 'tbooze." Psn-
 arelH then got into communication
 with RomanelH Dobbs said, and , finally saleeby, the druggist.
 When interviewed by newspaper , men at police headquarters, Pana-
 relh said he believed that 20 barrels 1 of. the "whiskey'' had been shipped to Hartford, each barrel containing be- 5 tween 40 and 50 gallons. The price , paid was from $1 GOO to S1,500 a barrel Two more cases of wood alcoho, poisoning were reported today by the Q police. James Besman, 40 years old
 was found unconscious on West 18th l street last night and taken to a hos l pital, where his condition is reported = as serious. Sarah Hart. g. also was Q taken to a hospital but she will re- e cover.
 3 New Haven, Dec. 29-Interest ir e the wood alcohol ''whiskey'' cases 1T
 thts>state centered today on police ac- 1 tivities in connection with the sale o1 r poisonous liquor. Fourten persons l. are under arrest in Connecticut g
 result of charges growing out of the distribution and sale of bevera geS e said to contain wood alcohol. n n Marshal A. T. Caron of Chicopee Mass, was here last night with war = rants charging murder against four = of the men arrested yesterday. Chic . 1 of Police Smith told the Massachu = etts official that the men must remain
 in jail in New Haven until legal step:
 are taken for their extradition tC , | Massachusetts. This may meet obsta-
 cIes, as the police declare none of the l men held here has been in the Bay
 State, although they are alleged tc y have shipped four barrels of liquol n from New Haven to Chicopee. Dominck Perrotti, one of the si, y held here, is said by the police tC I have manufactured liquor in a still 1T T Westville and sold it to Meriden sa . loonkeepers. The police are trying
 to connect the sale of this liquol 1 with the death of Mrs. William G
 Williams, in Meriden, yesterday.
 Four men charged with murder anj . three charged with transporting C poisonous liquor in motor trucks, are ,. held in Hartford, and a saloonkeepeI Il in Thompsonville is under arrest. :. Hartford, Conn.,, Dec. 29.---Saloons . 1 in Hartford closed today following 2 request from Chief of Police Garrett ; ; J. Farrell that they stop sales of every sort for indefinite period because of wood alcohol poisoning in the Con-
 necticut valley which up to this morn ing had resulted in nearl so deaths. Prosecuting Attorney Alexander w 1 Dreedon went to New York today tC = see Adolph Panerelli and others ot ] the "whiskey ring arrested in thai n city and he will seek to extradite then e to Hartford on charges of murder. r "The arrests in New Haven, Chico f pee, Ho1yoke and New York mear n that this gang should be rounded up S and so far as getting parties respon- f sible is concerned the caS. i- nhrs' icleaned up," said MT. Creedcn.
 Chfcopee, Mass, Dec. 29-Searcf
 was continued in this vicinity today
 for persons connected with the traffic q 1 in poisonous liquor which has result - ed Tn the last few days in at least 5 f deaths and, many cases of serious ill ]. ness here and nearby places. Tn, # death toll at an early hoour today wa. !. divided as follows: Chicopee, 37, in r cluding women; Holyoke, 10