New-York tribune., 1921-12-29
Wood Alcohol
Deaths Now Six:
Girl in Stupor
Two More Men Believed To
Be Victims of Poisoned
Holiday Drink Reported
as Dying at Bellevue
Police Aid Young Woman
Discover Her Unconscious in
Street in the Bronx; I'm
able to Trace Her Identity

Wood alcohol as a holiday tipple Is
thought to have been instrumental in
causing two more deaths yesterday
those of Waiter Smith, of 5e5 Pear
Street, and Walter Young, negro, OF
166 West 140th Street. Smith when
found had fracture of the skull az
well as symptoms of wood alcohol poi
soning, but the medical examiner at.
tributes his death to the poison. Ar
autopsy performed OIL Young showed
evidences of morphine as we'll as OF
wood alcohol poisoning
Edward Lanigan, o. % Chapel Street
Brooklyn, and an unidentified man are
believed to be dying from wood alcoho
poisoning at Bellevue, Hospital. LAM.
gan. was found in front Of 20 East
Forty Street. The unidentified
man was found at Eighth Avenue and
Forty-third Street He has fracture
of the skull
An unidentified girl, about nineteen
years old, with dark hair and brown
eyes, was taken to Lincoln Hospital
late last night from 149th Street and
Courtlandt Avenue, the Bronx, suffering
according to hospita! physicians, from
acute alcoholic poisoning.
The. girl was unable to give her name
or address, and the police are trying to
learn her identity. She wore a black
and white checked waist, blue skirt ad
black felt hat. She is about s feet r
inches in height and weighs about 1926
pounds.
Suspect Given Bail =
John Huron, of 2o6 West Sixty
fourth Street, who was arrested Tues
day on suspicion after four persons
had died from wood alcohol poisoning
was released in $4,000 bail on suspicion
OF homicide in West Side police court.
detective Cronin, who arrested him.
asked that the bail be made as light as
possible, as the evidence was far from
strong. 0''
Detectives Cronin and Maloney got
a tip last night that Huron had
pougnt some alcohol recently from
Martln Ryan, of Sol West Fifty-sec-
s ona street. Huron would not admit it.
put Ryan was arrested and is said to
have done 50. According to the police
ne said he bought the alcohol for Sd
from a sailor on a ship at Hudson
hlver pier and sold it to Huron for s12.
ne was taken to the ship and the crew
lined up in front of him, but he could
not PICK out the man from whom he
is said to have obtained the alcohol.
The reported reorganization bv
United States Attorney General Dauph-
erty IN the prohibition and food and fuel
law enforcement departments to pre-
vent duplication of effort had not been
oHlclaliy announced in New York yes
teraay' Ralph A. Day, prohibition di-
rector, said ne had not been advised
OF M the pending readjustment What
eaect IL Will have. on the prohibition
Offices here can only be conjectured.
The prohibition enforcement force
has been in a state of constant reor-
ganlzation for months, as alleged
irregularities, incompetency and ethe r
charges have caused many removals.
dlsmlssals and new appointments. Di-
rector Day is doing all possible to get
the department in good running order.
put ne admits it has been difficult to
keep 1T running smoothly.
Yeliowley Wants to Quit
e. c. Yellowley, chief prohibition en-
1orcemcnt agent, who caused a scnsa-
tion by. his raiding while acting di-
rector IN New York, now is in San
francisco, where the newspapers are
saying that he is desirious Of being
relieved of all prohibition enforcement
cAAS SiholAy WIS cInplOyeQ
checking income tax returns and liked
that work, as it kept him in San Fran
cisco, his home. Since he was trans
ferred to prohibition enforcement work
he has had to travel great deal.
1t was predicted yesterday that New
Years evening in New York will be
"the dryest in history" The prediction
was made by Federal Prohibition
Agents John Estes, Louis Vein, Sol
Grill and Otto Fabricius, who returned
to New York from Washington yester-
day. These agents have made all
Broadway arrests and raids since they
arrived here some months ago. They
made out the cases against Jacks Res
taurant, the Little Club, the Knicker-
booker Grill. Shanley's and other we'll
known places up town. Prohibition
agents yesterday made twelve arrests
and served one summons in saloons in
Manhattan and twelve arrests were
made in saloons in Brooklyn.
Maxwell S. Mattuck, Assistant
United States District Attorney, said
yesterday that he expected sealed in
dictments brought by vne Federal
grand jury two weeks ago would be
made public after the first of the wear.
1t was also said that cases against
Broadway cafe keepers would come up
soon after the first of the war