Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1911 — Wood Alcohol Kills Three, Blinds One and One May Die. [ARTICLE]

Wood Alcohol Kills Three, Blinds One and One May Die.

Whitestone, Ind., Aug. 16.— Three men are dead, one 1b dying and anotehr is blind as the result of drinking a concoction of wood alcohol prepared aa a subsltute for whiskey. The dead are: Julius Dodson, 27 years old; unmarried, laborer. Robert H. Hoop, 27 years old; married, laborer. William H. Hoop, 68 years old; married, laborer. ‘Those ill are: Frank James, 61 years old; married shoe cobbler; blinded. v Ira A. Neese, 43 years old* barber; partially blind and believed to be dying. The mixture, one gallon of wood alchobol and one gallon of water, was poured into a Jug by James, who had bought the alcohol in Indianapolis ( thinking, he said, it was grain alcohol. Robert Hoop died In convulsions last night after drinking the compound. His father, William Hoop, and Julius Dodson, a friend, sat up watching Hoop’s body and drank steadily from the Jug. Both fell into a stupor and died today, despite the efforts of physicians. Neese, who was with them, returned to hie home at Zionsville last night and a message from' there tonight said he was partially blind and there was little hope of saving his life. James, who had drank the deadly concoction yesterday, is stricken with paralysis of the optic nerves and will never see again, physicians say. Boone county, in which this city is situated, is “dry” and William Hoop was arrested several weeks ago charged with "bootlegging.”