The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-22
BELIEVE ITS LOVE
QUINCY MAN WHO DISAPPEARED
AT TYBEE REPORTED FOUND.
AT WORK IN DENVER STORE.
VRACKED BY NEW YORK. LIFE IN
sURANCE co. INSPECTOR,

Starting With CIews Found at Ty-
bee Inspector Garrison Tracked
the Man He Believed to BE Love
to Columbia. ). G., and Thence to
Denver, where He Located Him
in Dry Goods Store-Buried
Bathing Suit Near Bohan's Pavil-
ion Believed to BE the One Love
Got at Hotel Tybee Bath House
when He Went Into the Surf
A telegram was received in Savan-
nah yesterday, reporting the discovery
in Denver, Col, of W. S. Love of
Quincy, Fla, who disappeared at Ty-
bee last July and was believed by his
relatives to have been drowned.
Love, or the man who is supposed to
be Love, has been employed for
some time by dry goods
house in Denver. He was tracked there
by Inspector Garrison OF the New
York Life Insurance Company, who
was in Savannah about three weeks
ago, securing affidavits to be used in
contrasting the payment of Loves pol
icy.
Found Bathing Suit Buried.
MIR. Garrison was in Savannah for
some time and made a careful inves-
tigation both in the city and at Tybee
for cIews to Loves death. if he met
death in the surf, or for trace of
his whereabouts if he had left the
island He found evidence that led
him to believe that the missing man
had not been drowned but is alive.
This evidence was in the form of
bathing suit which, it is said, had
been cut to pieces, apparently with a
knife, and buried in the sand. The
color of the suit was blue and the
fragments had been in the earth so
short a time that they had not begun
to show the effects of exposure. The
suit secured from Hotel Tybee. it is
said, was blue. and, so far as is known,
has never been seen since the disap-
pearance of Love unless the mutilated
garment be it.
Tracked TO Columbia.
With the finding of the bathing suit
as a starting point. Mr.. Garrison Sc
cured information that led him to be-
description, had bought a ticket to Co
lumbia, S. c.. on the night of Loves
disappearance. He went to Columbia
and learned there, that the party de-
scribed had secured ticket for Dem
yer. He followed the trail to that city
and is now said to have found Love.
Loves Disappearance.
The disappearance of Love, which oc-
CURED, July 8, excited much interest
He came to Savannah, told friends that
he was out of position and looking
for work. He went to Tybee, went in
to the surf and was not again seen
by the people at the bath house from
which the bathing suit was secured AT
another bath house it was said that
man answering the description of the
missing man had also secured suit
and in LEI wing the dressing room there
had two bath suits, the one
he had worn in the surf, and an
other not even wet. His attention
was called to this and he stated his
intention of returning the suit to its
owner, and was said to have taken it
away with him. Loves relatives and all
who know him said that he was we'll
fixed financially had a happy home
life and had been of exemplary habits.
They had no doubt that he had been
drowned and for weeks had men on
all the nearby beaches where it was
likely that a body drowned off Tybee
would be washed ashore.