The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-10

day night, or has he simply disappear
! ed in order to secure money on the lie
and accident policies that he carried?
is the question that Proprietor Chas. F.
! Graham of the Hotel Tybee and others
familiar with the circumstances of a
| supposed drowning are asking.
Love went into the surf at the Hotel
Tybee Wednesday night about dusk
| and never came back. About 10: 80
o'clock Mr.. Graham asked the boy in
| charge of the bath house why he was
waiting, and was told that man had
gone in bathing and hadn't come back.
Mr. Graham at once instituted search
Of the beach but no one was in the
water and no lifeless body was to De
seen. 1t looked then like a clear case
of drowning and was accepted as such'
Later developments, however, leave
little doubt that Love was not drowned
| but that he came to Savannah from
Tybee on one of the late trains and left
| the same night, shortly after midnight,
ostensibly for Columbia. At least a
man answering in every way to the
description Of Love took the Southern
Railway for Columbia and acted IN so
suspicious a manner as to excite the
attention of every one around the I'm
| ion Station who saw him.
Had $4,000 Insurance.
Inquiry on Tybee, too, has thrown
much light on Loves actions on the
night he tried to create the impression
he had been drowned and also shows
very good reason for his act. This
reason is found in $15,5OO worth of in
surance that he carried. two $1,000 and
one $500 straight life policies In the
New York Life Company, and one ac-
cident policy for $4,000, taken out with
the firm of Cobb, Mullery & Mill OF
Macon.
Love reached Savannah several days
ago and registered first at the De Soto,
but later went to the Pulaski. lie
went from there to Tybee Wednesday
afternoon and registered at Hotel Ty-
bee, where he was assigned room.
Late in the afternoon he went to Bo-
hans pavilion where he secured bath
suit and a room, but instead of going
in bathing, he left the suit and a dress
suit case that he carried. in charge OF
the negro attendant at the bath houses,
after he had changed a dark suit Of
clothes that he had been wearing for
light one.
This done, he went to Hotel Tybee.
where also he rented a bathroom and
suit and this time went in bathing He
remained in the water until all the
other bathers had left the beach. but
instead of going to Hotel Tybee bath
house went to the pavilion. When ne
had taken off the bath suit he threw
1t into a passage way. The bath at
tendant picked it up and called Loves
attention to the fact that it belonged
to Hotel Tybee. He also asked where
tn suit rented from the pavilion was.
Love replied that it was in the room.
and so it was, rolled up just as it had
been given him, and dry, showing that
il had not been in the water.
How He Explained 1t.
Love seemed to think an explanation
necessary for he told the man that he
had not used the suit, having gone to
Hotel Tybee expecting to meet some
friends. They had not showed up, he
said. so he had gone in the surf with
out them. He put on the black or dark
suit that he had first worn, with
gray cap, and paying a man dime
to carry his case, started out. The
bath attendant asked what was to be
done with the bath suit. Love said he
would return it, picked it up and
started off. He did not return it, nor
has it been found.
While at the Hotel Tybee Love in
ouired particularly as to the schedule
of trains returning to Savannah. He
also sent a telegraph to his wife in
| Quincy stating that he would be home
the following day.
Under Name of John Smith.
The same night shortly before the
departure Of Southern Train No. 30 a
/ man clean shaver, wearing a dark suit
| and a gray cap, and in every way an
swering the description of Love went
to night ticket agent, J. F. Ward, al
| the Union Station, and asked the price
| of a ticket to Columbia. then to St
| Louis. and, before the agent could
tell him he asked what it would cost
to get to Denver.
After getting the information, he
wanted to know if he couldn't get a
ticket to Columbia with a lay over OF
an hour or so there and then get the
agent at that city TO fix up the ticket
for the remainder of the trir
Mr.. Ward explained that he would
have lay over of forty minutes IL
| Columbia anyway, and suggested thai
he had better get the through ticket
at once He finally decided to take 8
straight ticket to Columbia and trusr
to luck to have the rest of the trir
arranged satisfactorily. He asked thai
a berth in the sleeper be arranged for
Mr.. Ward inquired the name so that
he could make the proper entry or
the diagram. Put down anything;
Smith will do said the intended pas.
senger. The agent explained that al.
ready two Smiths" were on the list
and that to avoid confusion it wo.lIc
be well to be more definite We'll
make it John Smith," the man said
and John Smith it was made.
Anxious TO Escape Notice.
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