The sun., 1907-08-27
CAN'T FIND AGNES MAGUIRE
RELATIVES LEFT TO SEARCH
ALMOST ALONE.

NeTraes Whatever Of the Brooklyn Teacher
who Disappeared From q buggy at
Lake Hspatcoug on saturday Night
Few yoaunteer to Help Hunt for Hcr.
Tbs dissppearance on Saturday might
Of Miss Agnes Mcguire. the Brooklyn school
teacher. In the woods at Lake Hopatcong.
N. j.. remained mystery last night. An
day her relatives searched frauticaiy for
her. aided by some Of the oaml sr In the I'm
| mediate vicinity and friends from Dover
When evening came not one reliable clue had
been discovered that would show how tho
girl left tho buggy In which her cousin had
left her for few minutes or what course
she took when she disappeared In tho storm
that was then raging.
| Although a majority Of the summer
colony around the lake are inclined 10
believe the mystery eventually viii b
cleared up by the finding Of Mics MASUiss's
body in the lake tie girls father and hsr
other relatives seem to think that Il ID more
likely that she was overtaken by sons
other fate. They fear that shs was
assaulted by some disreputabls msn who
are not unknown to that region or that
she wandered into the woods and sither
died from fright or was struck by lightning.
These fears are strengthened by the facs
that the lake where she probably would
have approached it from tho camp where
she was last seen is very shallow. The
banks are not precpitous and for many
yards from the shore the water is not more
than two feet deep. Il has not been neoes-
sary to drag the lake. Boatrnen and camp
ers have rowed all over IL Watching the bot
tom through the clear water. Furthermore.
a strong wind has been blowing inshors
forthe last two days. Men familiar with the
lake say that itsurely would have brought
the girls body to shore had she been
drowned anywhere near this spot. The
young woman might have reached the
lake at another spot where the watsr 10
deeper. But this would have been only after
walk OF quarter Of mile over stones
and through brush.
Members OF the girls family say that sa,
had been suffering with nervous troubls
for about two years. They deny. however.
that she had any of the symptoms Of melan-
cholia. She went to her uncle's house on
Thursday to recuperate and on Saturday
afternoon took a trolley ride with relatives.
On this ride she laughed and talked % that
they commented on her spirits. There was
one thing Of which she had a particular
dread That was lightning
According to her cousin Charles, who
left her In the buggy at the camp, the
lightning had just begun when he hitched
the horse right behind an old barn. Miss
Mcguire had expressed some fear Of Il.
He says that he asked her TO get out, but
she preferred to remain In the buggy be-
cause when she had left home her relatives
had advised her not to get out at the lake.
and he was to be gone just long enough
to run down a little hill into the little cabin
where the campers were. On the other
side Of the road was another camp, and
near that a tent with more campers. The
lake was about a hundred yards away, or a
little less. The road down which they
had driven continues over the Jersey
Central tracks and ends az the lake, whers
there is shallow water for many yards from
shore.
There were lights in all the camps thss
| right One cottage not far away had 3
string OF lanterns around IL woman e
Camp Look Who's HIRE was sitting on the
porch when the Maguiree arrived facing
the road leading down to the lake She y
positive that no one went down that road
in the few minutes that Charles Mcguire
was inside Mrs. Sparks. the chaperon OF
the camp, believes that Miss Mcguire got
out OF the buggy, but she cannot imagine
why Had she done so and been seized by
any one it is hard to believe that her screams
could not have been heard, although every
one says that the peals OF thunder were
frequent at the time. Then 100. struggle
surely would have left footprints. There
were none by the buggy save these OF Charles
Mcguire
The ore person who saw the girl after
Mcguire left her. Mrs Lockman, q guest
al the camp on the opposite side Of the
road, says that she did not see her run down
the road toward the lake. A lamp from
her camp was shining across the road, ito
rays boring hole through the DARK. In
this little pathway of light Mrs Lockma,
could see part Of the carriage. The girl
got out Of IL. stepped out Of the light and
was. gone. Mrs. Lockman has no idea
which way she went.
The most likely place the girl would have
gone for shelter would appear TO be the
barn, near which the horse was hitchei.
That has been searched many times with
out revealing any trace of her having been
there. 1t cannot be said that the search
thus far has extended over u very wide
area. People have looked around and
called to the girl in a radius OF perhaps
mile or two. but nothing hike a systematic
search has been made because of the lack
OF numbers in the searching party Save
for the persons in the camps in the imme-
diate neighborhood. numbering not moro
than twenty. few offered yesterday to help.
The girls relatives were grieved because
OF the seeming disinterest Of the hundreds
Of summer visitors at the hotels and camps
1.-THE matter which meant 90 much 20 them.
The uncle asked several men IL they could
,ot help in the search. and all made sx-
cuses.
Chief Christy. head and sole member
Of the police force Of the vicinity. did al
he could. He said he was confident that
the girl was not in the lake near the camp
No bloodhounds have bsen unleashsd.
no dynamite has been fred. There 10 q
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