ALCOHOLIC POISONING
DEATHS, IN AMERICA
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NEW YORK, 27th Dec. Commenting on the deaths from alcoholic poisoning during the Christmas holidays, Dr. 'Charles Norris, chief medi•aal ftxamineir at Brooklyn Hospital, charged the Government with moral responsibility, because this liquor was purposely poisoned to render it impossible to drink, while the Government at the same time knew that the bootleggers constantly distilled the poison out of it. He added that the bootleggers are rushed to death and do not give sufficient time for the poison to steep out. The Government well knew that it was not stopping drinking by placing poison in alcohol.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER RESIGNS (Received 29th Dec, 9.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, 28th Dec. Because he believed the Prohibition Act was the most drastic law ever passed by any law-making body in the United iStates and could not be enforced in any large city. Assistant United States Attorney Harbin to-day resigned from ■ the National Prohibiticm enforcement staff.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 29 December 1926, Page 5
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