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Show FIFTY DEAD FROM POISONED BOOZE BOOTLEGGERS CAUSE DEATH WHEN THEY SELL LIQUOR MADE WITH WOOD ALCOHOL. Holiday Celebration Results in Death to Scores Who Had Purchased Poisoned Liquor From Men Now Charged With Murder. Chicopee, Mass. Four men were arrested ar-rested Sunday on federal warrants, two charging violation of the wartime war-time prohibition act and two illegal transportation of liquor from state to state. The arrests resulted from an' investigation into the deaths of more than fifty persons in the Connecticut valley since Christmas from drinking wood alcohol contained in a mixture sold as whisky. Five more deaths had resulted Sunday Sun-day from alcoholic poisoning, three in Holyoke antf two in Chicopee, bringing the total for the Connecticut valley, flot including Hartford, to fifty-three, divided as follows: Chicopee, 37, -including two women ; Holyoke, nine; Springfield, four, Including In-cluding one woman; Greenfield, one and Thompsonville, Conn., two. Those under arrest on the federal warrants are John Nasaizewski of Chicopee,' and Harry Shapiro of Springfield, truck drivers, who are charged with bringing the liquor into the valley ; Adam Ostrowski and John W. Starzky, both of Holyoke, charged with violation of the wartime prohibition prohibi-tion act. Marshal Alfred Caron of the Chicopee police, left for New Haven, Conn., with warrants charging murder against four men who have been arrested ar-rested there. The warrants were sworn out, the police say, on information given by William Baker of Chicopee, who is held on a manslaughter charge, and Shapiro. |