Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1920 — NEAR BEER FOR BOOZE; 2 DIE [ARTICLE]

NEAR BEER FOR BOOZE; 2 DIE

Patron Return# to Saloon With Pistol After Barkeeper Serves Mild Drink. Passaic, N. J., ,Dec. 2.—Two men were shot dead and one seriously wounded in a saloon here' after the barkeeper had served near beer to a patron who Wstoed for whisky. Frank Makowsky. who was shot in the neck, told the police that' fifteen minutes after he had refused td give whisky to a man he knew only as “Steve,” Serving near beer instead, the man returned with a pistol and opened fire. The dead are Anthony Gronitz, shot through the heart, and Andrew Barensky, shot through the head. Later the police arrested Stephen Paduch as he was crawling under the poreh of his home.