Show f A f HAR f fIN IN RUM 15 Dead 8 Blind and 25 III After Drinking Poison Liquor PEORIA III March 5 United Tracing Press a labyrinth of bootleg trails police and federal officers today joined in a hunt for the sources of the p alcohol which formed the basis for Ideath toasts that killed fifteen persons I here left persons and lit c ther Several of ofIe Ie per ons are t d fo live They are under treatment in their homes and in hospitals suffering suffering- intense agony from the poison Physicians MId out lIttle ope that the affected persons escape blIndness or Four persons were fOl murder mur- mur der tOday after a coroners coroner's jury had a verdict against them in th Peoria or poisonings The inquest was over the body ot Clarence Hopp one of the sixteen six six- teen persons who died in Peoria and nearby towns as a result of Continued on page 4 I I y 4 FACE CHARGES IN RUM DEATHS Continued pae 1 drinking highballs mad or poisonous poison poison- ous Robert Ca died of the polson toda In named by the were who sas sa's he blought the alcohol Chicago Chi Chi- cago hIs wiCe and Jr and Irs C. C O. O who helped him bootleg boot boot- leg it Four arrests were made ester day and the pollee re In gers down ThE polson was distrIbuted the jatter jat- jat ter part ot last week through Pe- Pe orla and Vermont ami aU near pe- pe oria USED NEW PROCESS PROCESS' I Police said the polson was dl from from- froma a g allon batch under a un w sa The alcohol was purchased by nearly two scort persons It ap appeared the cocktails thc with the liquid provIng death potion The dead Irl KatherIne Gray John D 1 1 21 AYlward Hopper 8 Harold Huddleston 28 i Ellen den 29 Richard Farra 32 and Ed I ward BaldwIn 38 all ot PeorIa W. W A. A 45 Harold 26 and Charles Holland 21 Andre Heaton 60 Lance 56 Ben Teel 60 and Easley 59 or Vermont Seven persons are In hospitals here and at Vermont and several ot these are not expected to live The first vord ot polson learned when three men who attended at- at tended a livestock mens men's party Thursday night died within eight hours Four more deaths occurred oc- oc Sunday and ei ht persons died The blindness cases reported YE NATURE OF POISON UNKNOWN The exact nature or tho poison has n t been learned W. W a. a corner who postmortem examinations said Elliott said that the polson the pancreas Convulsions and blindness must have preceded he said I |