PROHIBITION LIQUOR

Evening Star, Issue 19346, 4 September 1926, Page 5

PROHIBITION LIQUOR

“ DYHAIIITE * HIGHBALLS " DEATH BY POISONING. Pres# Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, September 2. A message from Chicago states that Mr Tollowley, Prohibition director in that district, declared that American liquor dyinkers were going insane, and had nobody to blame but themselves. He said: “People are consuming dynamite high-balls which come in bottles with fancy labels. These are leading to insanity, blindness, and death. The cheap moonshine handled by the smaller bootleggers is less dangerous than ■ the so-called genuine liquor. People might as well mix ether with' ginger ale and call it rye, rum, whisky, or any other name the bootleggers give the stuff.” Mr Tellowloy ordered samples to be analysed from a large liquor haul. Liquors labelled “ Bacardi rum,” “Scotch whisky,” “Canadian rye,” found to contain quantities of pyritine, wood alcohol, benzol, kerosene, nitre-benzol, pine oil, ether, orotoritro, and toluol. Mr Tellowloy said that in most' cases where deaths wrnre attributed to acute alcoholism it was nothing more than a case of poisoning.— A. and N.Z. Cable.