The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-14
FOR SAKE OF FAMILY.
Married Rich Girl Who Lost Social
Prestige.
ST. Louis POST Dispatch.

st. Louis POst-Dispatch.
w. E. Love, of Quincy. Fla, was recently
been missing from home since last July. 1t
was supposed he was drowned. His case is
a peculiar one.
According to the story he is said to nave
related TO a member of the firm of A. T.
Lewis & Son, where he had secured en-
ployment as a bookkeeper, he had, when a
young man, wooed and won the daughter
Of one of the wealthiest and most promi-
nent families in the South. He was a poor,
struggling youth, but felt that he could
make for the woman he loved a home and
fortune. The girl gave up her all for him.
and 1t i Is believed that this marriage caused
a breech between the young lady and her
family. which time has not served to heal.
Although perfectly able to give his bride a
good home and all the necessities of life,
love was not able to place her In the society
which had been hers before the marriage.
She c~heerfully gave this up for the man
she loved, but he worried over his inability
To place her in that station in life which
she had once abandoned.
At last he made up his mind to go-just
go. quietly, mysteriously and forever. He
did not care where he went. Life would
be nothing to him any more, but he con-
ceived it would be brighter and happier
for his young wife when he was out of ner
way.
The significant feature Is that he heavi-
ly insured his life before he left.
So, on July Is, he went away-to Savan-
nah, Ca, as 1t was afterward learned, and
there, on a Sunday, went to Tybee Beach, a
famous and widely known pleasure place.
Downing a bathing suit, he joined the hun
dreds who were enjoying the surf. That
was the last seen of him. His strange dis
appearance caused the report taht he had
been drowned His clothes were found in
the bathing house, where he had left them.
They were undisturbed but for the fact that
his gold cuff buttons and watch were miss
ing.
A diligent search was made for his body.
but no trace of ii could be found. This In
itself was regarded as strange, as 1t is gen
have been at Tybee Beach were
always thrown back on the shore by the
ocean waves sooner or later. Yet there
were other strange and inexplicable affairs
connected with the case. Still no trace of
the missing man could be found, and his
family soon came TO regard him as dead.
Their grief was inconsolable, and even now
they are wearing deep mourning for the
man who. 1t Is claimed. sacrificed so much
fer them.
The thought that the husband and father
had deserted them never once entered into
the minds of the loved ones whom he had
left at home. Such a thing seemed impos-
sfbl. His home life was the happiest. his
accumulated a snug little fortune, and to
all outward appearances his troubles Were
few, If any. His was the ideal home, and
the family We're grief-stricken beyond
measure at what was thought to be his
tIagic end. And even now they are uncer-
tain as TO the identity of the man who is
4 AOI as II DOOhhctptA IN a civ StOIci
where he has chosen to bury himself from
all that he once held dear. A telegram was
spnt by Love 10 his brother-in-law t. j
Ball, of Thomasville, Ca, who was ap-
pointed executor of his estate. What its
contents are no one knows. 1t was. how
ever. the first message TO any relatives since
his disappearance from his home.
The discovery OF Mr.. Loves location was
the result OF the efforts OF John W.. CARR.
sSn, special agent of the New York Life
Insurance Company. Loves life was in,
sured for $4,000 in that company, and. while
no demand for the payment of the policy
had been made, IL was certain 10 be made
ih time, and the company wanted co be sure
that Love was actually dead before making
a settlement. The company had its sus.
p;cions, and so Mr.. Garrison was detailed or
the case.
With infinite pains the agent traced the
course of Love-, and at length located him
In Denver.
Love says he expects to return to his
Southern home as soon as his health Is i'm
proved a bit. and he will find awaiting hin
a loving welcome from the faithful wifa
who has believed herself a widow, and from
the remainder OF the family. which consid
! cred itself forever bereft Of him