CHICAGO -- Lucien Berry, $48 a week drug store manager, yesterday confessed to federal authorities that he sold one of the pints of poisoned liquor that caused the death last Sunday of [Asa] John Dixon Harper in the rooms of a University of Chicago freshman.
An amazing traffic in liquor to university students, extending over a period of at least a year and a half, was revealed by Berry's oral statement.
He expressed a desire to be a government and state witness against Matt McAnany, owner of the store, and his [codefendant] arrested on a charge of murder in connection with young Harper's death.
Many gallons of liquor -- Berry was unable to compute the total -- were sold to students during the year and a half he was at the store, Berry said, despite the fact the store had no permit to sell alcohol or liquor.
Alcohol used in manufacture of the gin was obtained from bootleggers, he said, and was brought to the store either by McAnany himself or [the] bootleggers, and sold at $2 [pint?].
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