Republican farmer., 1920-01-02
EIGHT MEN DEAD WHO ,
 DRANK WOOD ALCOHOL 4 HELD FOR MURDER
CITY AND STATE POLICE AND FEDERAL AUTHORITIES ARE SEEK ING TO GET THOSE WHO ARE
 RESPONSIBLE

I1dI tIOIu, OOIlIi., bOC. %o- With eight men dead as the result of wood alcohol poison ing in this city, Hartford city and state police and federal au- thorities were at work today in an effort to round up the men responsible for the sale of the poison and to warn those who got some of it and who have not yet taken any. Four men arrested last night and this morning by the Hartford police were charged with murder in connec- ton with the sales, in the police court this morning, and a fifth who was taken in the act of transporting | the illegal liquor, was charged with violating the liquor law. New | Britain and Holyoke, Mass, police, acting on information from this city, secured a quantity of the poisonous l liquor in their respective cities. The 1 federal authorities were expected to | arrest members of a New York firm | which the police say furnished the | wood alcohol.
 l The four men brought into court l on a charge of murder are: l Jacob Bronerwine of 19 Roosevelt | street, proprietor of a saloon at 20S 1 Windsor street.
 Frank Rose of ST Portland street, proprietor of a saloon at PIT Windsor
 street.
 Saul Joseph of 39 Earl street, ped
 dler and alleged partner of ISroner- 1 wine.
 Nathan salesberg. address un- | known, pedidler.
 The four were held for hearing on
 Tuesday without bail. They were
 charged specifically this morning g
 with the murder of Antony Chasko-
 vich
 Irving Botuck of 22 Bellevue
 street, chauffeur of automobile which
 was backed up against Roses saloon
 with four barrels and seven casks
 of five gallons each when Detective
 Sergeants Edward J. Langriss, Jr.,
 and Charles J. HalIissey came upon | him, was held in $500 bonds for l hearing at the same time on a charge
 of violating the liquor law.
 When the cases of the men were called Prosecutor Creedon instructed
 the court to make their plea not gull
 ty. MT. Creedon and the two detec- ] tive sergeants, who were up all night on the case, succeeded at o'clock this morning in getting an adn:ssio on from the four men as to where they got the liquor, and so far as the men
 can remember to whom it was sold 1 It was on this information that the . police and New Britain authorities , were able to seize the poisonous i- quids in their cities.
 The twelve barrels had no revenue , stamps on them and it was expected that Adam Ostrowski of 103 High
 street, Holyoke, who the polise say : secured ten gallons of the mixture : from Bronerwine and his associates 5 would be arrested and that J. J. Mo Guilty of Elm street, New Britain purchaser of a like amount, would .lso be apprehended. The dead are: Kuil Molozuk, 45 years old, mar, 5 ried. 222 Portland street. James Charcovich, 34, unmarried d e 269 Windsor street. y Antony Charcouich. 28, married U. 269 Windsor street. Hyman Fisher, age unknown, sin
 1 gle, 1 Orchard street. Y. Philip Lasovich, 35. single, ST Fort e land street.
 Bartoism Stempkrp, 2S. marred. 6(
 Portland street.
 Alexander Chmiekswky, 54. m :, ried, 72 WestfaM street. West Hart s ford.
 Il Joseph Cherbutuck, 50, married. V All died shortly after reaching th' h hospital.
 ia Michael Yusk. the ninth victim s n far reported, of 275 Windsor street, r. expected to recover. a The notifications of the affair ar expected to involve firms and person a in other cities. A New Haven maj d was stricken blind on Wednesday af , ter he had taken wood alcohol Cor :. oner Eli Mix found. The fedora , authorities, it was asserted this af is ternoon, was expected to arrest 70 Danbury saloon keeper who is alles .e ed to have sold whiskey which cause
 a resident of that town to becom
 demented, Wednesday night.
 The Hartford cargo consisted of l
 barrels of the mixture, which tn
 four charged with murder say cam 1 to them all ready to be sold. The
 say they bought the twelve barrel for 12,000 and that they merel d added water to it before putting on sale.
 II James Charcovich, who was ad It mitted to the Hartford hospital at l. o'clock, Thursday night, died at 3: 3 IS this morning, the eighth victim of tn It illegal sales.