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Show ill-luck Victim dies in poverty San Francisco, Sopt. 2. Fred Bor-mann, Bor-mann, janitor, died alone In a squalid lodging house today. He was found sitting up In bed In his barren room. Fred Bormann, theatrical magnate, was an Intimate of the bonanza kings of many years ago. Locally famous old Bhow houses, some of which passed away years ago, and some of which were razed by thJ fire, yielded "him tribute from the various enter-I enter-I prlzeB foreshadowing modern vaudo-i vaudo-i ville. There wero Gorman playlets, i Spanish dancing gills, sword swallow-I swallow-I lng feats and blackface comedy Manv of these specialties Bormann brought j to the city for the first time. When the rush to tho Comstock began, he 'threw his fortune Into mining stock. Ills friends, ' the Floods, Fairs and Macknys, became rich and he became penniless. Several later turns of fortune for-tune brought him Into better circumstances, circum-stances, but only for-a day. Ill-luck dogged him, and a few years ago he cut off all association with his old intimates. Bormann came to San Francisco 40 years ago from Germany |