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Show VICTIMS OF ALCOHOL DIE IN THEIR CELLS . ' k 'NEV TORK. Feb. 14. Dying in prison pris-on cells within forty-eight hours of each ' other, their deaths In each instance in-stance attributed to alcoholism, while at least one was the victim of a fractured frac-tured skull, the fate of two men has led the Coroner to start a movement to give such persons medical treatment before imprisonment. , One of the men. James L. Taggert of Brooklyn, was found by the police In an areaway and locked up. He died after af-ter a Ehort time, and an autopsy disclosed dis-closed a fractured skull and hemorrhage hemor-rhage of the brain. The other man arraigned ar-raigned in court, was committed in the Tombs in lieu of a fine. He died three hours later. |