ILLICIT LIQUOR
DEATHS IN "AMERICA
EFFECT OF.,WOOff ALCOHOL
NEW .YORK, January 28. A Utica messago states that, with three more deaths .today, a total of 1(5 persons have lost their lives over the weekend from drinking a poison liquor containing wood alcohol, a beverago which was sold at various non-licensed
premises. ' It appears to havo been obtained from a single source —a group of bootleggers, whom tho police aro seeking. The situation has becomo' so serious that'tho-authorities"have been compelled to issiio a public warping. Three moro persons aro> in a dying condition in hospital,' and it is feared many moro have been poisoned. ,
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Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 11
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103ILLICIT LIQUOR Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 11
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