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Man Confesses Concoction That Was•, . *•vto Dozen People.Sulphur, Nov. 13.—(Special —WithF; the’binding over to the district court Of Boh Church HI cm a charge of jksH-^ wood alcohol for human con sump-.. -.* '.\r* -WOMEN NEED SWAMM00Ii * _ * ^■Thousands of women have kidney and bladder trouble and never suspectItWomen’s complaints often prove tohe- nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney of Madder disease.If the kidneys ;ir»' not in a healthy Condition, they may cause * he other orgArts to become diseased.Pain in the hack, headache, toss of ambition, nervourness. are often times symptoms of kklnr, trouble.v 111 c™1. irg treatment. Dr. -.Kilmer's i$waniu*Ri*it. a physician’s preacrlptton, obtained at any drug ; Store, may -be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions.Get a medium or lage siso bottle immediately from any drug store.However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents sth Dr. Kilmer Co.. Binghamton, N. •;y.t for a sample bottle. When writing •|»e surp and mention the Muskogee Titties- Democrat..day,t*uo and cottbtyofficersthey obtained a. clew to the death ofmore than a dozen pereona in OJtla^homa lt;uad heriotih Dines* of many others during the* past flow weeks, through the use of a recipe for nxakioig a liquor which is alleged to have been sold oy an yklahoma City druggist Inalmost every coumy of the state..Churchill, who was arreeiea at the home of Tom Chambers, near here suverail days ago, by a taap laid by Chief of Police Matt Bailey, is said tohave confessed to the officers that he had sold tho oobcoction to several residents of this county, but insisted that the stuff was not poison. Chambers declared at the trial that ho had consumed QuanUUj of it, with no badeffects, although VV. A. Walker, slate chemist, testified, that one ounce of it was sufficient to cause death within twenty minutes. Chambers later admitted he had not taken the same brand of stuff as had been sold.W hlle details of the sale of the recipe and Its effects are meager, the trial of Churchill in December will bring out some sensational facts, it was said bore today by officers. They declare they trill be able to trace the death Saturday of one person in this county to the drinking of this stuff and two who have been seriously ill for several weeks here will testify t»*f!iIts effects. One of thetfb testified at the preliminary' hearing today, hut theother was not able to bo put on the stand.In coses where the alleged booze does not kill the victim, it paralyses the tongue and brain, while sore®, both inside and out side the bodv areprevalent.In most cases the pcrenn dies ofsuffocation, since the wood alcohol cannot I.m? thrown off through thelungs.fofficers declare they wiH be able to show that two deaths «t Purcell, three at Marietta, one In Oklahoma City, one Ln Kay county and several others In different parts of the state, within the post few weeks, were caused by drinking the stuff made from using the recipe of the Oklahoma City druggists and many arrests are expected before the Churchill trial in December.t
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Muskogee Times Democrat

Muskogee, Oklahoma, US

Thu, Nov 13, 1919

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