POISON LIQUOR
SERVED AT BANQUET SEVENTEEN PEOPLE DEAD. Press Association—By Telegraph.—Copyright. VANCOUVER, .March 5. A Peoria message states that seventeen people are dead, eight blind, and twenty critically ill through drinking toasts at the stockmen’s banquet on Saturday night. One bootlegger who supplied liquor for the party has been arrested, tie admitted that he made fifty gallons of liquor by a new process, using denatured alcohol. Seventylive people drank his cocktails. The poison affected the pancreas, with convulsions and blindness preceding every death.—United Service.
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Evening Star, Issue 20118, 7 March 1929, Page 9
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84POISON LIQUOR Evening Star, Issue 20118, 7 March 1929, Page 9
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