DEATH TOASTS
A TERRIBLE TOLL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). VANCOUVER, March G. A Peoria message sattes: Seventeen persons are dead, eight are blind and twenty are critically ill through drinking “death toasts” at the Stockmen’s Banquet, held on Saturday night. One bootlegger has been arrested, who supplied the liqour for the party. He admitted that he made fifty gallons of liqour by a new process, using denatured alcohol. Seventy-five people drank the cocktails. The poison affected the pancreas with convulsions and blindness ' preceding every death.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 6
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86DEATH TOASTS Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 6
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