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29 PERSONS POISONED. SEIZURE OF LIQUOR. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 26. A Buffalo telegram states twentynine died during the week-end from the effects of poisoned liquor, whereof three were women and four more persons were blinded. Border police, hotli Canadian and American, made eight arrests. The latter lodged charges of the first degree of manslaughter against a man and woman. Three pri-' vate dwellings and two saloons were raided on American territory and large, quantities of wood alcohol moonshine stills seized, the police being guided by a man from whom two »f the victims purchased liquor. One seizure included telegrams, freight slips, hills of lading and the addresses of hundreds of persons resident in Buffalo and other eatern sections of the district, cancelled cheques and hank books, the latter disclosing a profit of two thousand dollars every six days. TORONTO, July 26. Thirteen deaths arc reported in three days through drinking poisonous liquor in Wastern Ontario. The authorities believe the source of the supply is in the United States.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1926, Page 3
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