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Show MADE THEIR OWN WMSklAND DIED Westerly, R. I.. April 12 At least one of the dozen or more mysterious victims of a concoction labeled whls- key, who have died in Westerly and vicinity within the last week, met death from poisoning by wood alcohol, alco-hol, according to the formal report of tho medical examiner today. A possible solution of the mystery-was mystery-was offered by n Westerly dnieglsl. He declared the Italians were In the habit of making: their own whUky as Westerly Is a temperance town and at the drug stores they asked in poor . English for "good alcohol." He thought it probable that a clerk might have misunderstood "wood"' Instead i of "good" alcohol and given the for- I elgners the poison from which they mixed up a drink. |