Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-04-21 | Page 20 | Millionaire Plunger Has Lost His Mind

MILLIONAIRE PLUNGER HAS LOST HIS MIND I Joe Ullman Hurried Eastward to Sanatorium Sanatorium Began Began Life as Newsboy San Francisco April 20 20 Dr D. D D D. Lustig started I last Kast st toda today with Joe Ullman Ull man the welt well known millionaire bookmaker bookmaker bookmaker book book- maker and horseman who will bo be placed In an eastern sanatorium for the th insane Ullman has been kept at a sanatorium in Oakland for three weeks hut hilt ho has made madeno no Improvement nt Sometimes s he fancies that people are arc trying to rob him at others others others oth oth- ers he thinks a mob moll Is hunting bunting him to take tako his life He lie sleeps sleep vel very little and his nerves seem to be bo completely gone Ullman's troubles came from financing the San Carlo company compan of 01 which ho he was to lose the angel The company compan began money in III the Northwest and antI In Texas at atEl atEl atEl El Pa Paso lao 10 a a. mob attempted to wreck the opera house houte because cause a 11 matinee program was cut short in order to permit the singers singers sing sing- ers to reach a a. train In time rom ITom Pear S Ullman became Insane tram from fear car wh when n nhe he heard leard the tho mob moh shout hout and hl hiss s Alice Allee Nielson and from that time he ho never to be In possession ion of or his ties Ills His trip from Kl m Paso laso Pa o to Los LOM Angeles An n n geles cles was a continual nightmare as he refused to sleep claiming that people were entering the car to rob roh him hum At Las Angeles he seemed se mell to get some rest and he insisted on accompanying the troupe to this cH city He lie was tol told that the company compan would lose money mone here and anti this preyed on his mind He lIe became violent here and was sas placed in a sanatorium lie He will wiil be he given every attention on his trip trill East but bat his friends hero here fear that he cannot re recover re- re cover c Leader on Oil Turf Ullman who Is II r 53 years cars old oil has been for or the tho last t twenty ears enra among the lead lead- ng ag nl race track bookmakers operating In Inthis Inthis Inthis this country lIe He was the tho owner of oC s several several sev sev- eral gambling establishments In NewYork New NewYork York and a rival rhal of Richard Canfield l at to Saratoga He lIe J Ie was r reared ar d in an orphan asylum and since Inco he became becam w wealthy alth his hiM charities chari i ties Ie to similar Institutions huv have been n heavy With Uh Barney Kid Weller and backed by hy John W. W Gates Gales he lie made a book at al th the Saratoga race track In 11 1002 that was called th the big biJ store owing 0 o the fact that wagers were is ac- ac accepted ac nc- l as nR freely as a Il 3 5 bet iet I went to New York City from t LOll Louis Lotus when when- he was a n newsboy anil was himself a hl heavy gambler He lie often n bet as much mlle as R M 0 0 III In a single lay day it at the th Metropolitan race nee tracks lie was wasa wasI a I familiar f figure at the Waldorf Valdorf Delmonico's and s In 1901 h he lie was waR married ll to Mrs r J. J N. N lallatin a who had U o t o 0 years arl before horl beet been from rom h her r husband grandson of i S former secretary of the nU after r 1 three thre months' months hon honeymoon