Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1878 — Buchu Helmbold. [ARTICLE]

Buchu Helmbold.

Dr. Helmbold for two or three days has been missed from the high stool in one of the down-town groggeries upon which he is wont to perch himself for an all-night sojourn. The fact is, he is violently crazy again. An officer found him this morning walking along Fifth avenue and talking incoherently. He was taken to the station-house in Fifty-first street, where he became so violent that is was decided to send him to Bellevue Hospital. While he was waiting for the arrival of an ambulance Dr. Helmbold turned on the hydrant and deluged himself with water from head to foot. He was taken to the hospital, where he was placed in one of the cells on the ground floor. While lying there with a straight jacket on he talked of gigantic schemes, in which an unknown woman, a kiss, and large numbers of troops were features. He was visited by physicians, who, after examining him, thought that his excitement was caused by alcoholism, and that he would be well again a in few days. —New York Herald.