POISON LIQUOR
NEW YORK’S WEEK-END
18 KILLED—6O SICK (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable —Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Recd. October 9, 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 8. The police are searching for poison liquor in the dock district of the city, while the ambulances are still removing dead and dying from the section, aftei’ one of the most deadly weekends on record.
Eighteen are at present dead in morgues, while over 60 were received in the hospitals during the last 24 hours.
Recent attempts by the police to suppress the more disreputable “speakeasie?” resulted in the increase of privately made “smoke,” composed' of raw alcohol cut with water and coloured with iodine and creosote, and sold at ten cents a drink. *
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1928, Page 7
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