The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-26
WOMAN DISAPPEARS IN WOODS
HUNDREDS HUNT FOR BROOKLYN
TEACHER NEAR DOVER, n. u.

TEACHER NEAR DOVER, n. u.
Nits Agnes Masuire's Cousin Left Der for a
Few Minutes In . Buggy while a ThuD-
herstorm Ragged and Returned to Pind
Her sione-No Trace n Hcr Course.
Miss Agnes Mcguire, formerly a teacher in
Public school 80. Brooklyn. and her cousin,
Charles Mcguire Of Dover. n. j., were riding
in a buggy along the shore OF Lake Hopat-
DONG Saturday evening when they we're over
taken by a violent thunderstorm. They
hurried to a GOTTA 70 known AZ Camp Look
Who's Here and the young man left his
cousin alone behind the storm flaps Of the
buggy while he hastened into the cottage
to get q suit case. When he returned, within
five minutes, Miss Mcguire was not in
the buggy. For thirty hours u hundred
campers along the shores Of the lake have
searched for her and not a trace OF the
missing woman have they found
The woman gave up her school
in Brooklyn last February because she
was near a breakdown. Her nerves were
still weak when she went down to visit
her uncle, Bernard Mcguire, in Dover on
Thursday last. Charles Mcguire had left
q suit case at a cottage at the camp, where
Ire had stayed recently, and asked hi $
cousin to drive with him TO get IL. They
we're we'll on their way when the storm
ca me upon them suddenly. Miss Mcguire
was terrified by the flashes Of lightning.
Charles began to lash his horse when the
Srst heavy drops came down. As the storm
sed he urged the bea st to its utmost.
Stopping near the cottage at the camp
he promised his cousin that he would not
he ont of the buggy five minutes, and after
he hitched the horse to a tree on the road
above the summer cottage he tucked the
storm curtains about the white. anxious
face Of the woman.
Mcguire dashed down o little hill into the
cottage. found his suit case and scrambled
back UP the rise through the trees. The
rain was coming down in torrents and the
vivid lightning played close to the tops of
the trees. Mcguire pulled back the cur
tains to step into the buggy. The woman
WAS gone.
In lulls between the rumblings Of thunder
Mcguire called aloud to his cousin. No
answer came. He ran back to the cottage
camp, believing that the woman might have
grown more terrified ct being left alone
in the storm and tried to make her way
there. No one had seen her. The young
man. thoroughly terrified. reused the whole
camp and men in raincoats began beating
through the trees about the spot where the
buggy had been hitched. They called
again and again .bove the noise OF the
storm and explored ell tho hillside leading
from the road down to the camp, without
success. Miss Mcguire had disappeared
as completely as though caught up in the
lap ID thu storm.
An Saturday night men from all the camps
along the shore Of the lake near Nolan's
Point, the plsce whore the woman had last
been seen, secured the hills. Emmett
HOPKINS Of Boontop. N. j.. one Of the
visitors at Camp Look Who's Here. went
out in a boat with a fare torch and dived
repeatedly into tho deep water along the
shore in front Of the cottage.
When morning came yesterday word was
carried all about the lake that a woman
had slipped from sight, and the band Of
searchers was augmented BY recruits from
every quarter. Bernard Mcguire. the uncle
of the missing woman. came out from
Dover and directed the efforts Of the men
and women. Mrs. Mcguire, the mother
Of Agnes Mcguire. came out to the lake too.
Sn0 IIAuBLIlly AAuRhotoh eAo W.
find her daughter and she Joined the bands
Of pecple that apread out fanwise over the
surrounding country.
As the Efforts Of the search parties be-
came better organized all the woods and
fields in a radius OF four miles back OF
Nolan's Point and about that end OF the
lake we're gone through thoroughly. In
auiries were made ct farm houses and at
other camps along the lakc shore and de-
scriptions OF the missing woman were left
with every farmer and traveller along the
country roads.
Only one psrson saw her after her cousin
Charles had left her In the buggy. One
Of the guests at Edward W. Kilpatrick's
camp. called Castle Randbox. says that the
light from their cottage window was shining
across the road at ths place where Charles
Mcguire tied his horse and that she saw
Miss Mcguire step from the buggy only a
few minutes after the departure OF the
man and make of down the hill toward the
lake in the direction he had taken. She
did not return 70 the buggy.
ONLY tbs sIsndsrest kind Of a clue was
discovered. One Of the campers reported
that about Q O'Clock yesterday morning
hs met two coiored men near the Sunny
side Hotel, about two miles from Noian's
Point. who said that earlier In the morn
ing, they believed II must have been about
a. o'clock. a young woman met them on
the road near hat place and ssked them
il they could direct her to a place where
she could stay They told her OF the sunny
side Hotel and thought nothing more Of
the incident until alter when they heard
Of the search that was being made. Last
night an attempt was made to find tbs two
negroes and learn more definite particulars
about their meeting with the woman.
Along toward midnight the searchers
found one OF the negroes. He could throw
no light on the mystery OF Miss Msguire's
taking on. for he said that the woman he
met was dressed in black. Miss Mcguire
wore a gray silk jumper suit and white
waist when she went on the ride with her