Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-04-09
TINDAl. AND RUSH STILL ALIVE.
Both MOurned as Dead--Tindal's
WiI Was Probated.

Orangeburg, April 6.-FamiShed
and homesick, Barclay Rush, who
with A. j. Tindal, Of Eutawville, dis
appeared on the afternoon Of March
13, to-day appeared in Orangeburg
with truly astonishing story OF the
disappearance. According to Rush,
Tindal Is alive, though his whore
abouts is ~tnown; Rush declared
he himself :. ew weary of wandering
and decided to return.
Rush got off The 5 o'clock train in
Orangeburg to-day. He was seen and
recognized as one OF the supposed
victims Of what was thought to be Il
double tragedy OF the Santee river.
informed that men had worked for
days attempting to recover his body
and that of Tindal, Rush seemed to
consider the matter in the light Of a
joke. He looked in the same way on
the statement that TinLArs will was
probated last week.
Questioned as to his supposed
death in the Santee, Rush was reti-
cent. He gave few details, though he
seemed anxious to clear up the mat
tex,
Rush said Tindal had been in
gloomy frame Of mind, having taken
a pessimistic view of the future. Tin
dial, his employer, Rush said, had
called upon him to leave the country.
They had announced their intention
Of going on a fishing expedition and
had gone down the river to the spot
where their boat and their hats were
found.
They had taken two sets Of hats,
Rush declared. He and Tindal he
said, had made their arrangements
for their dramatic disappearance,
having set the scene as though for
double DEATH They had then gone
on to Parler, where they had taken
the train.
They went to Augusta, and there
they parted, after spending some days
together Rush went to Alabama,
and Tindal dropped out OF sight at
Augusta. At any rate, Rush main
! tains that he has heard nothing fur
ther from his companion.
Neither had much money Rush
declares. This lack Of money was
what finally drove him back to this
s5tate When iie arr lvesl n ere fss NJ rs
very hungry, having had nothing 20
eat all day. |
The coming OF Rush brings further
developments in an affair which for
days was the talk OF the entire COM
| muIlty.
On the afternoon Of March 18th
! Tindal and Rush announced that they
were going on a fishing expedition in
the Santee river near Millic;,l's Sta
thon They instructed a negro man
| to drive down to the water to meet
them. When he got there he found
the boat the men had used, the bot
tom shattered, floating in a. little bay
OF the stream. Near it we're the hats
the pair had worn. The conclusion
was that they had been dynamiting
| fish and that a premature explosion
OF dynamite had wrecked the boat
and thrown the two luckless fisher
men to their death in the river.
For days and days the search Of the
river was kept up, but the heavy
freshets OF the few days succeeding
the supposed accident rendered the
work difficult and made 1t improbable
that the bodies, If they had BEEN In
the river, would have been found.
1t was rumored that Tindal had
been having financial troubles, but IL
was later announced that he had
made arrangements to tide over his
financial difficulties.
| Tindal was farmer OF some prom
inence, a son Of the late j. e. Tindal,
Secretary OF State. He was manager
OF two great plantations, one at Eu-
tawville and the other near Milli-
cans Station, where he was supposed
to have met his death.