The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-04-09
4. ]. T|NDAL ALIVE.
BARCLAY RUSH RETURNS HOME
AND TELLS OF DISAPPEAR
ANCE.
Two Men, Supposedly Drowned I'm
Santcc River, We're not Drowned,
but Left Statc--Tindal Last Seen by
Rush I'm Augusta.

| Orangeburg, April 6.-Famished
and homesick, Barclay Rush, who
with A. j. Tindal of Eutawville disap-
peared on the afternoon of March
IL, today appeared in Orangeburg
with a truly astonishing story Of the
disappearance. According to Rush,
Tindal is alive, though his where
abouts Is unknown. Rush declared he
himself grew weary of wandering and
decided to return.
Rush got off the o'clock train
In Orangeburg today. He was seen
and recognized as one OF the sup
posed victims of what was thought to
be a 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 q
joke. He looked in the same way
on the statement that TindaIs will
was probated last week.
Questioned as to his supposed death
In the swoolen Santee, Rush was reti-
cent He gave few details, though
he seemed anxious to clear 10 the
matter.
Rush said Tindal had been in q
gloomy frame Of mind, having taken
pessimistic view Of the future. Tin
dal, 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, hav-
ing set the scene as though for a
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 Angus
ia. AT any rate, Rush maintains that
ne has heard nothing further from
his companion.
Neither had much money, Rush de-
clares. This lack Of money was what
finally drove him back to this State.
When he arrived here he was very
hungry, having had nothing to eat all
day.
The coming OF Rush brings further
developments in an affair which for
days was the talk Of the entire COM
munity.
On the afternoon Of March IS Tin
dal and Rush announced that they
were going on fishing expedition in
the Santee river near Millican's Sta
tion. They instructed 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 little bay
Of the stream. Near it were 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 fishermen to
their death i'm 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 it improb-
abel 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 it
was later announced that nc had
made arrangements to tide over his
financial difficulties.
Tindal was farmer Of some prom
inencc. He was q son Of the late j. T..
Tindal, secretary of State. He was the
winner of the first corn prize given
in South Carolina under the auspices
of the United States department of
agriculture and was well known as a
scientific planter. He was manager Of
;wo great plantations, one at Eutaw-
Vile and the other near Millican's
Station, where he was supposed to
have met his death.