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[INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE*CHICAGO*. Jffo' j o —a V. am m 4 against whether it comes from thc-j bootlegger do luxe who guarantees his merchandise as the m«-liowed | product of time or from the dirty spcak-eMsy that peddles the eapj that cheers at “two bits a shot” was sounded here today on the heels of tive week-emi moonshine fatalitieswhich brought Chicago's poison tuuze toll for 3 025 to 3 b jThe warning was in the form of a general survey of the liquor- situation,- issued by Capt. A. C. Town-rend, fiencral Prohibition Agents’ Chieftain here, which declared that j less than 1 per cent, of the bonze sold in Chicago and the rest of thecountry now is bona fide liquor. The rest, Capt. Townsend said ranges jfrom out” liquor doctored up wills j7large volumes of raw alcohol, water j and coloring material to downright poison, consisting largely of woodalcohol.It is tin* latter, investigators said, that probably caused the five deaths hero Saturday and Sunday. In connection with thes*\ an alleged woman bootlegger. Mrs. Margaret. Mine II a. 23. is being held, t*ne admits,police say, having sold liquor to Ki-iry Woods. I*, and tive companions but refused to tell whore she ob- j taiuod it. Woods is dead and three j cf hi? companions aic critically ill. |
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Hammond Gary Evening Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Mon, Jan 19, 1925
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