DYNAMITE HIGHBALLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1926, Page 15

DYNAMITE HIGHBALLS.

BOOTLEGGERS’ POISON, INSANITY FOLLOWS USE. RESULTS OF ANALYSIS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 3, 11.15 p.m. New York, Sept. 2. A Chicago message states that Mr. E. Tellowley, prohibition director in this district, declared that American liquor drinkers were going insane and had nobody to blame but themselves. He said: “People are consuming dynamite highballs which come in a bottle with fancy labels. These are leading to insanity, blindness and death. Cheap moonshine handled by small bootleggers is less dangerous than the so-called genuine liquor. People might as well mix ether with ginger ale and call it rye, rum, whisky, or any other name the bootleggers call the stuff.” Mr. Tellowley ordered samples to be analysed from a large liquor haul. Liquors labelled Bacardi, rum, Scotch whisky, Canadian rye and old Kentucky Bourbon, were found to contain quantities of pyritine, wood alcohol, bezon, kerosene, nitro benzol, pure oil, ether, ortoritro and tuluol.

Air. Tellowley said that in most eases where deaths were attributed to acute alcoholism, it was nothing more than the outcome of poisoning.