Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1928, Page 25

1,000 DETECTIVES ~ SEEK POISON RUM Special Grand Jury to Probe Liquor Deaths to Be Asked | in Gotham—Toll Now 34. | By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK. October 10.—With the | Jist of dead from alcoholic poisoning at 34, autopsies showing 18 due to wood Blcohol, city and Federal authorities to- day renewed their efforts to ferret out ithe source of supply of the poison Jiquor. | [ United States Attorney Charles H. fTuttle announced that he would present what evidence he had obtained to the Federal grand jury in session and on his recommendation a special grand | jury to handle only poison liquor deaths | was called for Monday. i he recurring deaths from the | fr king of poison justify an immediat nvestigation by the Federal grand ju e said. “The investigation will be c flucted in such wise as to co-operate | with the city police authorities in_their | purpose to deal also with the offenses | against State laws which these deaths | indicate.” { Police Redouble Efforts. | meanwhile, o establish the source o R police, their efl O | redoubled | companied him on the fligl ‘FALL the poison liquor supply. One thousand | plain clothes men were called off other | duties and assigned to the investigation, which, it was said, would include all known speakeasies in the city. One possible source of the poison liquor was disclosed by M. M. Haertel of Cranford, N. J., who told police that a drum of a shipment of wood alcohol to his firm had been tapped at Syracuse and a considerable amount of the liquid stolen. on the lower East Side, where most of the deaths occurred, might have been guilty of the theft and sold !he] poisoned alcohol to his clients. Ten Suspects Under Bond. ‘Ten of those captured in raids on East Side speakeasies were arraigned in court and held in $3,000 bail, six times the usual amount for liquor law viola- tors. The heavy bail was set because of possible criminal action on homicide charges against the men if liquor seized in their place was found to be poison. | The city toxicologist has not yet made his report on the seized liquor. WIFE AWAITS FLYER. Mrs. Bert Hassell and Two Sons Arrive in New York. NEW YORK, October 10 (#)—Mrs. Bert Hassell of Rockford, Ill, wife of the pilot of the airplane Greater Rock- ford, which was forced down in Iceland on an attempt to fly from Rockford to Sweden, arrived yesterday to meet her hushand, who is expected to reach N2w York Sunday. Mrs. Hassell was ac- companied by her two sons. Hassell and Parker Cramer, who ac- board the steamer Freder O It was thought | some bootleggers serving speakeasies | PENING phone and light standards. Lights were off for a portion of the afternoon and street car service is one section was interrupted for three hours. The victim, Paul Lair, 9 years old, was electrocuted when he touched a broken live wire. ‘The eastern section of the city suf- fered the heaviest damage. Most of the damage had been re- paired last night. > NEW HEARING ASKED FOR U. S. REPORTER | Anglo-American Press Body Seeks Rehearing for Horan in Treaty Issue. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 10.—Premier Poin- care and Foreign Minister Briand yes- | terday were requested to make a new | investigation of the case of Harold | Horan, correspondent of the New York American, by unanimous vote of & com- mittee of the Anglo-American Press [Assoclation. el ¥ Horan was hel y police seven hours | Monday for questioning as to how ey he obtained a memorandum of the _ Orchestra French foreign ministry covering the B it Franco-British naval ahcc_ord. : In s ¢ e beature sald he was given his choice of leaving o Ruby_Shaw France within eight days or of facing ?nl:,:'rfi::d.";(:,’ a prison sentence. over Soaes B0 The Press Association has appointed subcommittees to furnish the govern- ment any information desired. Horan said that the memorandum had been simply handed to him by Willlam Ran- dolph Hearst with instructions to cable it to the United States, which he did. WARDMAN fiAfiK HOTEL SUPPER DANCIES EVERY WEEK NIGHT 10 to 1 Music by Boy Killed in Violent $torm. 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