POISON LIQUOR.
TWENTY-NINE DEATHS. RAIDS MADE BY POLICE. AVOOD ALCOHOL SEIZED. Received July 27, 11.35 a.m. NEW YORK, July 26. A Buffalo telegram states that 29 people died during the week-end from the effects of poison liquor, whereof three were women, and lour more persons were blinded. The border police, both Canadian and American, have made eight arrests and later lodged charges ill the first degree of manslaughter against a man and a woman.
Three private dwellings and two saloons were raided on American territory and largo quantities of wood alcohol and moonshine stills seized, the police being guided by a man from whom two victims purchased liquor. One seizure included telegrams, freight slips, bills of lading, addresses of hundreds of persons resident in Buffalo and other Eastern sections, price lists, cancelled cheques, and bank books, tho latter disclosing a profit of 2000 dollars every six days. —A. and N.Z. cable. DEATHS IN ONTARIO. Received July 27, noon. TORONTO, July 26. Thirteen deaths have been reported in three days through drinking poisonous liquor in AVestern Ontario. The authorities believe the source of the supply is tho United States. —Reuter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 202, 27 July 1926, Page 8
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189POISON LIQUOR. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 202, 27 July 1926, Page 8
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