Show HIS FORTUNE HAS FLOWN Dr Henry Helmhald of Bnchn Fame In an Asylum for Insane Special to THE HEIIALD Examiner Dispatch ASBUBT PARK May SODr Henry T Helmbold of buchu fame is again dangerously danger-ously insanco and has been committed to the New Jersey lunatic asylum at Trenton Mrs Helmbold and her children are residing resid-ing Hero This is the fifth time within twenty years that Helmbold has been placed under restraint In July last he was taken from his home to the Trenton asylum He was so violent that chains and a straight jacket had to be used Recently he was released cured as it was supposed but his mania returned and for fear he might do aome one bodily injury in-jury he was again incarcerated Helmbold made his money in drugs He discovered that almost any nostrum would sell i liberally lib-erally advertised Ho boomed what he called his buchu and sopn money flowed into his coffers faster than ho dreamed of He established five stores and a labratory at Philadelphia and three here Helmbold bought a yacht and his gorgeous six inhand with gold mounted harness two footmen and a coachman was a famil iar sight on the streets of New YorK as well as at Long Branch where he maintained main-tained a magnificent establishment His social entertainments were dazzlingin their splendor and for the time he was about the most talked about man in the United States But Helmbold grew dissapated riches turned his head wrecked in health he went abroad and for a long time was confined in a European sanitarium His creditors became alarmed and when he returned to this country he found that the bulk of his once enormous fortune had gone His former friends turned away from him and his beautiful wife unablo to longer endure his brutality secured a divorce not long after his insanity again became manifest and ho would go through the streets of Philadelphia and New York in outlandish attire his face painted and his coat ornamented with a bouquet as large 8 a head of cabbage |