The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-29
IN A MAD HOUSE.
DR.. HelmbOld, the Famous Patent
Medicine Man.
The Fourth Time He Has Been COnilned-Now
He is Chained by the Wrists-His
Feet Are Shackled.
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NEW YORK, July 2S.-Dr. Henry T. Helm
bold. the famous buchu man who was
credited with having piled up fortune OF
SIC, GOO, 900 by the sale of his patent medi-
cines, is once more in mad house chained at
the wrists and with shackles on his ankles.
He was taken from his home at Long
Branch last Friday and conveyed to the
insane asylum at Trenton, n. j. He is
now in straight jacket and is raving
maniac. 1t is the fourth time within the
last twenty years that the doctors family
has been compelled to place him under re-
straint This will probably be the last, for
competent physicians have pronounced his
case hopeless. Ever since his release from
the Philadelphia asylum a doctor has re-
sided with his family at his beautiful home
on Chelsea avenue, Long Branch. He
never was entirely cured, and during the
last few months his old trouble developed
to such an extent that it was necessary to
keep him at home in charge of professional
attendants day and night. Last week the
doctor made several attempts TO injure his
attendants and members of his family.
DR.. Helmbold at one time was one of the
most conspicuous men in New York. He
made money by the carload and spent 1t
ike a prcfiigate He was Philadelph
boy of rather humble origin and early in
life began his apprenticeship TO a druggist
in the Quaker city. One day Phlladel-
phia newspaper contained the announce
ment in big letters of wonderful medical
discovery that had been made by Apothe-
cary Helmbold. Almost instantly the fame
of Helm bold's buchq became universal, for
the smart little druggist followed up his
success by placing his carefully worded
advertisements in nearly every newspaper
in the United States. Money flowed into
HelmboId's Golfers faster than he ever
dreamed Of and he soon had four or five
stores and immense laboratories in differ
ent parts of Philadelphia. 1t was not long
before he opened three additional stores in
New York.
About this time Hembold b.. Mt yacht.
His gorgeous six-in-hand with gold
mounted harness, two footmen and coach
man. was familiar sight on the streets of
New York as well as at Long Branch,
where he maintained a magnificent estab
lishmert. His social entertainments were
dazzling in their splendor and for time he
was the most talked about man in the
United States. But Hembold could not
stand prosperity. Riches turned his head.
Wrecked in health, he went abroad and Tor
long time was confined in European
sanitarium. When he returned to this
country he found the bulk of his once enor-
nous fortune had been swept away. He
began drinking heavier than ever. His
friends, now that he was penniless, turned
away from, and his beautiful wife, unable
to longer endure his brutality, secured q
divorce His brother placed him in the in
sane asylum at Norristown. He remained
there for four years; then his wife inter
ested herself in him again and after much
difficulty secured his release Not long
after his insanity again became manifest
and be would go through the streets OF
Philadelphia and New York in outlandIsh
attire, his face painted and his coat orna-
mented with a boquet as large as the head
of cabbage.