Honolulu, Feb. 5 (AP)—Six enlisted men in the United States Army are dead today and 16 are ill at the Schofield Barracks, as a consequence of drinking bay rum.
The dead are John J. O’Brien, Ernest E. Devio, George W. Hapgood, all of Company C, 21st Infantry; Mout L. Duty, Sam G. Wilmer, 27th Infantry, and George S. Harrington, 8th Field Artillery. All are privates. Three of those made ill may die.
The bay rum which caused the deaths was purchased at the post exchange store, where it was offered as a hair tonic. Some of those in the barracks hospital are believed also to have drunk oklolchao, a native whiskey.
The drinking was done Sunday. Three died Monday, two Tuesday and one Wednesday. Their addresses have not been learned but it is reported that O’Brien, Devio and Hapgood, who enlisted together at Newark, N.J., planned to go home next Saturday on a transport.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Friday morning, Feb. 5, 1926
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