The New York herald., 1922-01-11
WOOD ALCOHOL KILLS
7 new JERSEY MEN
Three i'm HObOken Drink
Death From Bottle on
Automobile Trip.
BOOTLEGGERS SOUGHT
Woman and Man Seized in
House With 30 Gallon
MOonshinc Still.
MORE PRISONERS TAKEN
One Source Suspected for All
POisOnings and Detroit May
Afford Clew.
MORE PRISONERS TAKEN

POISON liquor caused the deaths OF
six men in Hoboken yesterday. An
other man died from the same cause
in Jersey City on Saturday. The Ho-
boken police have made several ar
rests. and are working on the theory
that the liquor that killed the seven
men was all obtained from the same
have occurred in Hoboken from wood
alcohol poisoning within the last year
The source is believed to be an anna
teur bootlegging distillery in private
house in Hoboken.
Chief OF Police Hayes of Hoboken
has assigned men to scour the water
frontfor distributors of bootleg liquor.
They have orders to watch particu-
larly for men posing as sailors who
offer brandy" for sale. This brandy"
supposed to come from foreign ports.
is either water or very bad whisky.
The seven victims are:
EMIL LANCE, proprietor of a saloon
at 326 River street.
RUDOLPH EBERLE. boarder with
Lange.
PAUL SCHMIDT. boarder with
Lange.
HENRY OFTEN, iongshoreman, In
ternational Lodging House, 129 Wash
lngton street.
WILLIAM BERGER. los Park ave-
nue..
EDWARD DEAN, longshoreman. 1O7
Garden street.
JAMES SHEEHY. longshoreman, who
died in Jersey City Saturday.
One Bottle Poisons Three.
Lange. Eberle and Schmidt drank
from the same bottle during an auto
mobile ride they took Sunday Accord
ing to Eugene Lange. nephew of the
dead saloonkeeper. his uncle told him
he bought quart of liquor from an
old longshoreman on Friday The
nephew identified picture of Sheehy
as that of the man from whom his
uncle bought the liquor. William Lange,
a son, told the police the same story.
Lange became i'll Monday evening,
and his wife sent for DR.. f. c.. Wolff of
l109 Garden street. Hoboken. Later in
the night he was taken to st. Mary's
Hospital, where he died.
Schmidt" DIR. Wolff said, "died with
remarkable suddenness. He was sitting
in a chair in Lange's place smoking.
while / was treating Lange. l frequently
turned to watch him. What are you
looking at me for?' he asked. ! told
him he was a very sick man, and he
said. Like hell am He. was dead an
hour afterward."
DIR. Arthur r. Haskins, assistant
county physician, performed autopsies
on the three bodies and announced that
the deaths were the result of wood alco-
hol poisoning. He made the same find-
ing In the case of Sheehy In the cases
of Berger and Often he was uncertain.
and he could not definitely determine
the cause of Dehn's death. although
wood alcohol seemed the most probable.
James Sheehy. Jr. told the police he
understood that his father bought his
liquor on Hoboken pier.
Often died at st. Mary's Hospital a
short time after an ambulance took him
there from his lodging house. Berger
died in his home and Dean was founc
dead in LOGGING house.
Still Found I'm Operation.
The Hoboken police arrested Peter
Hehyt and Mrs. Marie De Vale OF 307
Second street Hoboken. on the charge
of having violated the state liquor law.
In Hehyt's place on the second floor
they found a still in operation. They
discovered also five washboilers full of
WHISKY mash. two large milk cans con-
tanning mash, twelve quart bottles be-
lieved to contain raw whisky and sew
eral bottles OF coloring matter It was
estimated the still could turn out thirty
or forty gallons day.
Mrs. De Vale. the police say they
believe. has been n distributor of the
moonshlne and the police are looking for
her husband. The DE Wales live on the
floor below the one on which the still
was found.
1t was learned that the Heyhts went
to Hoboken from Detroit little more
than month ago, and Chief OF Police
Hayes is i'm touch with the Detroit au
tborities in an effort to discover whether
there Is connection between these
deaths and several which occurred IN
Detroit recently.
George Carroll and Michael Lilis,
longshoremen. have been held as ma
terial witnesses. According 10 the police
these two admit they often bougl.
whisky at the Second street address.
Lange's nephew told the police that
he and his uncle used to buy liquor from
longshoremen whose source of supply |
was the alcohol barrels on the piers |
Lange said the stuff was carried In hot l