New-York tribune., 1921-05-11
One Dead, Four
Are Dying I rom
w ood Alcohol
Two Mem and Two Women
Are Found Unconscious
i'm Ninth Avenue Fiat;
3.l64 Arrested 10 Date
Enright Asks SLOTS, 600
Prosecutors Chemists Find
One Bottle of Real Liquor
Qua of 200 Analyzed

One death and four persons dying
from wood alcohol poisoning were re-
ported to the police yesterday. This
brings the total dead from that cause
TO three for the present year.
Williams Jwaszkenicz, Of 246 East
Fourth Street, was found dead in his
room and an autopsy was performed
by doctors at Bellevue Hospital.
The patients reported dying are all
at Bellevue. They are Loretta Hunt.
220 East 102d Street; Anna Lewis. of
Seventieth Street and Avenue A: }. E..
Widkowsky, sailor, 1923 Brunswick
street, Philadelphia, and Sidney Win
gard, of 1872 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn,
All are less than twenty-aix years Of
age. The four were found unconscious
in fiat at s52 Ninth Avenue late Mon
day night. They had rentad the apart
ment Saturday.
Lewis Issues Warning
District Attorney Harry E. Lewis. in
brooklyn, issued warning against all
liquors now being sold. He asserted
that chemist attached to his staff
liquor in two hundred analyzed. All
others, he said, were of amateur manu-
facture and OF deadly nature. One
sample OF gin was "a per cent new
alcohol. favored with juniper berry oil
and cologne. Home brew samples
showed the yeast still active and of a
nature to cause acute gastrItfs.
Raids were conducted by plain
clothes men in we'll known resorts in
the theatrical district, among them
Ziegfeld's Roof, at PA West Forty
second Street. William Lane and Will
liam Gilbert, patrons OF the roof, were
arrested, charged with possessing
liquor. John Mara, assistant manager,
was arrested, charged with disorderly
conduct. Gilbert and Lane were held
in $1,000 bail by Magistrate Jesse Sill
hermann. Mara was discharged.
jacques Bustanoby, former part
owner of the famous restaurant Of
that names at Fortieth Street and Sixth
Avenue, was arrested in Brooklyn yes
terday with two other rnen, one OF
whom, it is charged, was driving an
auto truck bearing sign: Laundry
Delivery" Police charge the truck con-
tanned ten cases Of wine.
Ship Used as Test Case
The United States Shipping Board
officers in New York reported to Rear
Admiral Benson, chairman OF the board,
In Washington, that the steamship
Huron, a Shipping Board vessel, op-
Grated by the Munsoff Line, between
New York and South American ports,
had arrived in port with heavy cargo
of beer and other liquors which had
been taken on by Captain James McGor-
man, the skipper, at South American
port.
1t was said passengers had been
served with all they desired to buy up
until the three mile limit, when the
did" had been clamped down. 1t was
reported the vessel had been used to
make test case 10 find if prohibition
could be regulated on seagoing vessels
under the American flag outside the
three-mile limit. The Munson Line
officials denied all knowledge Of the
case. The skipper said he had orders
to take on the alleged contraband.
At the Shipping Board offices it was
said the case would be decided at
Washington and instructions would be
wired here. No action would be taken
in the case, it was said, until report
from Washington was received, and
that days might elapse before such in
structions were forthcoming
3,164 Arrests
Police reported total arrests to date
as 3,164. Seizures aggregated 43,S07