Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-19
STORMER EXPLAINS.
He Reoounts His Business Troubles and
Asks for q Suspension of Judgment.

| He Reoounts His Business Troubles and
Asks for a Suspension of Judgment.
The GLOBE, on Thursday morning, con-
tanned an exclusive account of the escapade of
w. Fl. Stormer, o well known grocer on East
Seventh street, leaving a number of his
friends in the lurch. Since his departure he
has written letters to several of his friends
explanatory of his sudden and mysterious
disappearance. Among the letters received
| from him, which bear no date or post mark,
is the following, which the GLOBE publishes
in Justice to Mr.. Stormer, and for the infor-
nation of those who are, and have been suf-
ferers by his departure:
DEAR FRIEND: I have now determined on
my future course. / shall meet my cousin in
few days, and then details will be arranged,
and no doubt all satisfactorily. have been
foolish, indeed, to endanger my life-endure
suffering beyond all human endurance for the
sake of being able to shield others from loss
to unfit myself for all business and make me q
vacillating creature, unstable from one day to
another.
But all is now changing. am getting strong
and healthy and have fixed purposes. l can
now gradually unravel all the coils with which l
am surrounded, and shall once more be able In
course of time to stand up unfettered before
the world. My sleep is sound and l only now
and then have slight attacks of nervousness.
Please do all you can for me and / shall not
forget you. / start out anew, with experience
gained in adversity, with fixed purposes, and
with physical and mental strength renewed,
and have no fears. My friends can now help
me and are assured that no whisky bloat, and
no son of q whisky bloat, will become possessed
of and suuander their aid which they may be
inclined to render me.
think shall in few
days be able to do all kinds of work, physically
and mentally, and then be assured, when, with
strength restored, there will be no prouder
moment in my life as when l can meet you
again in the full strength of manhood re-
stored to render you my personal thanks, and
not only to you, but to all my old friends, to
present myself before them, and plead their
forgiveness for any Inconvenience l have oc-
casioned them, to explain in full detail my ter
rible suffering for the last few years, and then
to satisfy every obligation OF honor and man
hood full and complete.
[ shall work with will and determination
never known before, and with the assurance
that no A. @. Rode will eat up, or rather drink
up, both profit and principal. hope to hear
from you at once.
Please write all which might interest me,
and do me another favor: Show this letter to
John Heinlein and the Rev. E. j. Funk, and
tell them that no matter what opinion they
may now have of me 1 shall hold them in kind
and before one year is over pro-
pose to meet them and Others, and If cannot
satisfy them in fifteen minutes that under the
terrible crises which was approaching l did
Just what should have done, l will say no
more and return from whence l came. Yours
as ever, w. d. B.
Another letter goes into detail and re-
counts all his business troubles and con-
cludes as follows:
Bat why do you leave in such o clandestine
manner you will ask. Because could not DOS
sibly have been able to meet the indignant
scowling of my heard-hearted creditors in my
present mental and physical condition. / will
meet anything and everything in store for me.
will present myself at the tar of justice or
anywhere else it shall be required. will meet
and suffer every obloquy which an indignant
public can heap upon me.
Let them shower their anathemas upon my
head and will some day return, yes, return to
st. Paul meet them face to face, prepared to
meet and adjust every pecuniary obligation,
and then perhaps / shall have a chance to say
q few words in explanation. Then l shall
leave the place never to return sgain, for
could not bear to live there again.
With restored health, can do something;
without this, can do nothing.
To all my old com rades. will not dare to
call them my friends, / bid adieu, and all
ask is suspension of judgment until csn be
heard from again.