New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-08
.,isonRuraaRaid
On Huge Scale.
o(.IleckI)eatlls
Rcd Hook Section One Vast
DissiIIery, Declares Dis
srict Attorney, Who Will
Direct General Roundup
Fatalities Now Eleven
Alcohol Sold for Toilet Pnr-
poses Believed To Be the
Base OF Deadly Whisky

i raid On poison rum distillers and
venss-s. to involve simultaneous M
,.s;on Of ali premises under police
.sceryision in the Red Hook section
i srcoslyn, is planned by District At
,arnav Ruston, following examination
Yesterday Of twenty-five men and
women alleged TO be connected WITH
.ss traffic. Two additional deaths from
wood alcohol poisoning brought the
aotal fatalities since Monday to eleven.
According 10 information obtained
,.st night. the police search VIII oe
carried out under Captain sonnofs' OF
The Hamilton Avenue station who WITH
A.s;stant District Attorneys Marshall
SNYDER and Reuben Wilson directed
rad early yesterday saorning on an
snartmeut house occupied by Mrs. Mar
rayet polazzoio, OF i43 Conover Street.
Tba woman was questioned two hours
sns i held on suspicion of homicide.
fifty quarts of bootleg liquor are said
a. have been seized in the apartment.
ssAll / can say about the police plan
a that / hope it will prove sufficiently
COMPREHENSIVE said Mr.. Ruston last
a;ghs. "The condition is one that de-
,nands extraordinary measures. The
whole Red Hook district is distillery.
There are scores of flats and cellars
whpre poisonous stuff is being manu-
faetured. Single raids merely give
iorewarnirg to hundreds of still opera
sors who shut up shop and disappear
!, word is passed that the police are
sut. This difficulty has to be over
sorne. We are trying to overcome it,.
That is all am able to say for the
present"
More Poison Cases Reported
The police have notified all physi-
rams practicing in the Red Hook dis
tret and vicinity to report all cases
- nnisoniug, even remotely indicating
wood alcohol symptoms. Already sew
eras additional cases have been report
ed and the patients are being ques-
tened
Dr.. Ernest Vaughan. official examin-
mo ,nhvsician Of the District Attorneys
ofiss, discussing wood alcohol deaths
laid simple remedies applied IN time
nignt nave safeu ehS Ai'S' "
tins
aTbe first symptoms of poisoning
.stsr drinking bootleg liquor" said DR..
Vawehau. should be met by swallowing
sauieus draughts Of water-hot by
preference, cold if necessary.
aThe wood alcohol sufferer should
stay right by a water faucet and drink
,-stsr as fast as he can absorb it. The
1 hot
chance Of survival. The more he can
dilute lie poison the less deadly 1T will
he When the stomach becomes over
loadsd with water and vomiting ensues
.ts,proceas must be repeated. Two or
ssas quarts of water absorbed in this
will save a life if it is swallowed
va enough after the poisoning synlp-
sas appear. The water cure is effec-
liFsif taken in time. After nerve CEN
eishave been attacked, causing impair
nsnS of vision and sometimes total
bllndness, there is little hope for the
suferer.p
Two Die In CONVERSIONS
The two who died yesterday were
Martin Connolly. compositor, of 80
Dkemsn Street, Brooklyn, and Thomas
same address. The men were seized
With conyulsions. Connolly died at /
4. m and Padden two hours later. The
deaths were followed by an early morn
ing descent on the Polazzolo apartment,
information concerning which is said
TO have been obtained by the police
iron Padden an hour before his death
Mrs. Polazzolo explained TO Captain
~ I'D
husband had locked her in the fiat
AFTER lnstructing her 10 admit no
body he police found double padlocks
On the doors. The woman is said to
taye confessed under questioning that
Ter husband had been engaged in con-
soctlng and hootlesging whisky. Fol
!9Wlng her arrest Mrs. Polazzolo is said
70 nave withdrawn statements made by
aes N the. apartment, A large demi-
sSAn lonad IN the house bore a label
% me loEg Island College Hospital.
aeT victim, Anthony De Jenaro,
= a4e van Brunt Street, who was re-
saoyea e the Kings County Hospital
sa aitsT noon yesterday suffering
s.uM alcoholic convulsions. was said
sN iaas night to be on the verge of
e sSasi' VI. aleSafrey, in charge of the
sass, SAID De Jenaros chance of re-
800 vas one in hundred. When
s ~ ms man was in a semi conscious
,s;s nns safsr he experienced several
.seia intervals. Information of value
ne Police is said to have been
esfslned from him.
Now Seeking Polaztolo
sIyieenee available so far will be sub
rls.ea hl District Attorney Ruston on
ssgaFoay to the grand ;urv Tndic+,
ssEtea % Judge Martin on Saturdav
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