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Show UNIDENTIFIED MAN DIES AT HOSPITAL. Salt Lake, April 15. An unidentified unidenti-fied man taken to the police emergency emergen-cy hospital at 3:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon died at 9:44 last night from what is believed to have been Bright's disease, aggravated by acute alcoholism. alcohol-ism. At 3:15 a call came to the desk ser- geant's office that a man lay on tho pavement near the Intersection of Postoffice place and West Temple street. Chauffeur George Mooro and Patrolman John Allen answered the call in the patrol wagon. When they arrived the man lay on the sidewalk in what at first appeared to be a state of coma, probably pio duced by alcoholism. As a precaution the man was placed in the hospital room at the jail instead of being booked 'for Intoxication. Ills condition, to all appearances, seemed to be one of Intoxication and tho physician was not called. Shortly after G o'clock hospital attaches at-taches became alarmed at the man's state and called Dr. W. Scott Keyting. police surgeon. Dr. Keyting observed the man, made several hurried tests in the laboratory of tho public safety building and pronounced the man a sufferer from an acute form of Brlght's disease. In spite of drastic efforts to save his life he remained in a state of unconsciousness un-consciousness until death came 00 |