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Show "ANGEL" OF SAN CARLO CO. IS NAD Joe Ullman Lost His Reason! When Texas Mob Hissed Nielsen and Tried to' WrecK Opera-House. .Toe Ullman, recently the "angel" of the San Carlo Opera company, now in" this city, is being rushed across the 1 continent to an Kastern sanitarium, his reason gone and his mind filled with; strange vagaries. When Miss Alice Nielsen was singing at an engagement in Texas, and an at-; tempt was being made to cut the per-' formance so that the artists could have1 their cars attached to a regular train, the crowd stampeded, and the brutal, cries of the infuriated mob drove Ullman Ull-man mad with fright. Sometimes he fancies that people are, , trying to rob him; at others he thinks a mob is hunting him to take his life.; He sleeps very little, and his nerves j seem to be completely gone. Ullman 's troubles came from financ- ing the San Carlo company. The com-, pan.v began to lose money in the North--west, and in Texas at KI Paso a mob1 attempted to wreck the opera-house he-1-cause a matinee program was cut short.! Ullman became insane from f ear when he heard the mob shout and hiss Alice Nielsen, and from that time he. never seemed to be in possession of his' faculties. His trip from El Paso to Los Angeles was a continual nightmare, night-mare, as he refused to sleep, claiming that people were entering the car to rob him. At Los Angeles he seemed to get some rest, and he insisted on accompanying ac-companying the troupe to 'Frisco. Ullman, who is 55 years old, has been for the last twenty years among the leading race track bookmakers operating ope-rating in this country. Ullman went to New York City from St. Louis, where he was a newsboy, and was himself a heavy gambler. Tie often bet as much as $50,000 in a single sin-gle day at the Metropolitan race tracks. He was a familiar figure at the Waldorf-Astoria, Delmonieols aud Rector's. |