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Show OFFICERS ARREST VIOLATORS OF LIQUOR LAWS CHICOPEE. Mass., Dec. 28-TTnit;j States Marshal Edward J. Lnd;y totliy arrested four men on federal warrants, tv.o charging violation of tho war UiUfe prohibition act and two illegal transportation transpor-tation of liquor from rtflte to state. Th sDrrestS resultod from his investigation into the deaths of more than fifty persons in the Conm ctirtit valley since Christmas from drinking wood alcohol contained In a mixture sold as whisky. live more death had resulted since early today from alcoholic poleonlnc. thre, I in Holyoke nnd two In Chicopee, brim,- inc the total for the Conneclcut vallov, not including Hp.rtfor.i. to flfty-thrh. dlVfded ao .'oliowi: Chi:ope 37, Including two women; Hoi-fOfet Hoi-fOfet :: Spnnjrficld. 4. including one woman; Greenfield. 1. and ThOiBP a j vllle. Conn.. 2. 1 Those undr rrst on the federal war- I Iranta are .Tohn Nasaiaewskl of Chicopee, Bh and Hnrri Shapiro of Springfield, true H driver.-, who arc charged with brlnginc , the liquor into the vulk- ; Adam Ostrou- Hp ski and John W Star,iyk. both of Hoi-; Hoi-; yoke, rhartred witii violation of the wai r ' (time prohibition act. They will .c ai- T0 i raiemr-ri before a I 'n i f .-.! States conm. - 1 rning AJI r,cre rcvB leased under 5300 bonds. Wi Marshal Alfred Caron of the ChicopCH police, left today for Xcw H.n. n. Conn IT11 with warrants againgH four men ho have hcon arrcfted then MC The warrants v. ore sworn out. the potlct say, on information giw.n by Wllllon I K Oi Chicopee, who is held on a man- .J slaughter charge, and Shapiro. -j s Although soveral n w rases of pnlrnirtgj LJ wore reported today, the n-imbe de. j creased considerably over Friday and 3a'- H urdaj The number, however, inrrcail in Holyoke. i i h?i Six Men Arrested. M NEW HAVEN. Conn. Dec 7 w men were arrested today in connection he; with the sale of wood alcohol "whisky" L which they arc alleged to have shlpped'BS :ioni ihi . . ,, , !lVl-p,.Hi Ma5 The arrests were made at the request oft tri attorney at Wesfield, Mass . who telegmphed that the men are ' wanted for homicide in Massa-I chusetts." Two barrels of a compound believed. to contain wood alcohol were conf is-; 1 in a bnrn on the out.-kirto of the city. According to the police, four ba M Of liquor w. re shipped from the born to Chicopee, Mass., where a large j number have died from drinking a wood alcohol mixture. The six men held aro allaged to have been the own-era own-era of the liquor stored in the barn.j They received $1050 a barrel for' the J four barrels sent to Chierpco, it is I said. I |