METHYLATED SPIRITS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 16 May 1912, Page 5

METHYLATED SPIRITS.

INCREASE IN CONSUMPTION. BY TELEGRAPH- -PEESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, May 15. In the course of the hearing of the Goscomb case (in which the wife was found dead in an outhouse) it came out that Goscomb and his wife had been drinking methylated spirits. Enquiries show that there has been a marked increase in the consumption of this spirit lately. Chemists say that they have constant demands for it. In many cases where they suspect* it is to be drunk they refuse to supply it. One instance was quoted, in which a man bought three bottles regularly on Saturday night, until the chemist was informed that he was a dipsomaniac. The police say that methylated spirits is a particularly maddening form of alcohol, and urge that the sale should be .restricted as a poison.