The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-03
NOTES INDICATING Suicide
Young Man Declared That He was
''Unlucky Born and That He Was
Tired of Being Misunderstood - Ro-
nance Said to be Responsible.

E. J. Gormley, former cashier and
lbookkeeper at the offices of the M. H.
Petit Mailing Company and the hero
bof an exciting encounter with robbers
at the Offices of the company only a
short time ago is mysteriously missing.
He disappeared from Kenosha on last
Friday night and letters which have
been turned over to the police indicate
that the young man may have taken
his life while respondent.
Gormley had made his home on Chi
cago street and all Of his clothing and
personal effects were found in his room,
in fact, they had been arranged with
great care. He was last at the room on
Friday afternoon and he gave the mem
bers of the household no notice Of his
leaving. The fact that he had disap-
peared was first reported to the police
department on Saturday morning. An
investigation showed that before CORN
ley disappeared he had written two
letters, one of which was addressed to
his employers and the other to young
woman of the city, whose name has not
been brought into the case. The two
letters were of similar import. They
were of hysterical nature and indi-
Gated that Gormley had been badly
wrought up at the time of the writing
of them. He asserted in both of the
letters that he was meditating suicide.
In one of them he declared, "When you
get this letter / will be at the bottom
of the lake with a stone tied around
me.' In another letter he declared,
81 was born unlucky and the only
thing for me to do is to end it ALL n
These letters were turned over to the
police by friends of Gormley, who be-
lieve that he has become deranged from
worry over the recent robbery On last
Tuesday night Gormley was arrested
on a charge Of disturbance by one
of the members of the local police de-
partment Gormley appeared in court
and entered plea of guilty" to the
charges and he declared at the time
that he had taken this course to shield
the name of young woman who had
been connected with the case. The
young man seems to have been of
romantic temperament and it is declar-
ed that this love affair has had lot
to do with his disappearance
The police have been making a search
for Gormley since last Saturday, but
they have found no clew to his present
whereabouts.
Gormley came to Kenosha from a.
small town down in Ohio and he had
for a long time been employed in the
offices of the Petit Company.
At the time of the daring robbery at
the malt, house Gormley was in charge
of the Office. According to his story
two men entered the place and after
he had been bound and gagged he was
locked in toilet room while tie men
ransacked the Office, securing a consid-
cradle sum of money. 1t was an open
secret that the police had kept Gormley
more or less under surveillance since
the robbery at the plant, but his en-
ployers had expressed the fullest conf
denee IN his honesty and integrity and
they had declined to have any share
In the suspicious of the police. CORN
ley had been notified that he could con
tinue in his present position until the
first of January or until the affairs of
the Mailing company had been decid
ed upon.
Gormley appeared to be very despon
dent on Friday afternoon and it is said
that he talked with a number of close
friends. He complained that he Was
suspected wrongfully in connection
with the robbery at the malt house and
that he had been disappointed in his
romance.
Gormley is about twenty eight years
of age. His life in Kenosha has been
above reproach and his close friends
feel certain that it will be found that
he has carried out his threat to commit