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During Prohibition, a desperate search for alcohol led two men to drink a toxic concoction. On the night of Monday, January 19, 1931, Kentucky-born Ben McAtee (1881-1931), an unemployed laborer and former railroad worker, met with Adam P. Ludwig (1900-1931), an unemployed pipe fitter, in Dennison, Ohio. During the time of national Prohibition, both menContinue reading “Accident or Foul Play: The Dennison Poisonings”