POISON LIQUOR
IN NEW YORK DOCK DISTRICT A DEADLY WEEK-END United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright . Australian Press Association (Received 9th October, 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, Btli October.. Police are searching for poison liquor in the dock district of the city, while ambulances are still removing dead and dying from the section after one of The most deadly week-ends on record. Eighteen are at present dead in morgues,’ while over sixty were received in hospitals during the last 24 hours. Recent attempts by-thci police to suppress the more disreputable (‘speak easies,” resulted in an increase of pri-. vately made “smoke” composed of raw alcohol cut with water, and coloured with iodine and creasote, and sold- at ten cents a drink. . . .. .■■■=■ :
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 October 1928, Page 7
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119POISON LIQUOR Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 October 1928, Page 7
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