New-York tribune., 1921-12-30

is expected to furnish the clcw TO the
bootlegger from whom he obtained the
liquor which is believed to have caused
his death. An empty bottle marked
gin and another, ,threeuuarters full Of
whisky, supposed to have been harm
less, also were found in the room.
Mrs. Valck died while being taken
in an ambulance to DelIevue Hospital
after she had been found unconscious
in front Of 13 East Thirty-fifth Street
BY PatroIman 0smond, Of the East
Thirty-hfth Street station. She had
been missing from her home several
days.
Tho new cases In the hospitals are
those of Mrs. Jane Prose. of 626 Tay-
lor Avenue, wife of mechanic and
mother of a fve-year-old boy; Louis
Rosen, thirty-hve, of 1o4 Suffolk
Street, who was found in front of Al
Orchard Street; John Doo1ey, fourteen,
Of 322 West Twenty Street; Will
lam McElroy, sailor, Of 463 West
Twenty-third Street, and an unidenti-
fed man found in Park Row.
Martin Ryan, nineteen, Of SOL West
Fifty-second Street, 10 said by the
police to have confessed selling the
alcohol which caused the death OF
Frank and John Tiffany to John Horan,
of 206 West Sixty-eighth Street, who
is under arrest on suspicion of homi-
eide Detectives say they expect to
connect these two with all four Of
Tuesdays deaths.
Ryan is said to have declared that
he got the alcohol from y German sail
er on the pier where he work as q
longshorenan. He was taken TO Pier
SO, where, he asserts, the purchase was
made, but was unable to identify any
of the seamen lined up before him as
the one from whom he obtained the
poison. Ryan is understood to have
obtained the alcohol for 81 and to have
eged to have sold liquor to the Tiff
fanys.
Another blow aimed at the bootleg
ging business was delivered by the
Kings County Grand Jury yesterday
vixen it decided to return indictments
charging crimes far more serious than
violation Of tie Mullan-Gage law in ali
cases where chemical analyses showed
the presence Of poison in the liquor
sold. Regardless of any disastrous
effects, the beverage may or may not
have had upon the health Of the pug
chaser. the grand jury intends to know
is ingredients and will act with vigor
upon the advice Of scientists.
First the Federal judges here decided
that the time for fines for prohibition
ofrenses had passed, and announced
fourteen days Imprisonment as the
minimum penalty, even on 81 plea of
guilty. Then the United States attor-
neys began obtaining injunctions
against confessed or convicted viola-
tors Of the Volstead act, depriving them
of the right to jury trial by making
them liable for contempt Of court. But
inasmuch as Prohibition Director Day
announces that there is no such thing
as non-poisonous "bootleg stuff" and
! as 70 per DSnt Of the $10,000,000 worth
of liquor confiscated here in the last
three years is to be destroyed as unfit
for human consumption, the action in
Brooklyn yesterday may prove the
| hardest blow of all.
1t is tha ught that the example Of the
Kings County jurors may be followed
in all state and Federal courts.
Commenting upon the decision, Dis
trict Attorney Harry Lewis said that
j the distribution of poison as pal
atable beverage is a crime, even though
the stuff may not have been imbibet
| by the purchaser.