New-York tribune., 1907-08-26
HUNT GIRL ALL NIGHT.
BROOKLYN TEACHER LOST
Disappears from Buggy While
Storm Is Raging.
LEV relcsraph 70 TIE Tribune

Dover Y J. Aug. 25.-In driving storm the
colony at Like Hopatcong spent ali last night
searching for Miss Agnes Magrire, Of Brook
!yr. who has disappeared as mysteriousiy as II
the earth had opened up and swallowed "e''
Left alone in a carriage for a moment pE le'
cousin she gone when he returned i"e'e
IS absolutely no clew to her whereabouts, ana
whether she was kidnapped or met her heat' III
the lake near by may always remain nlFs'eFS-
With her cousin Charles Mcguire. who Is
clerk in the postoffice here. she started from
Marysville for Camp Lou. cottage near 'he
lake ahn.t 7.3O y M. and when the storm
broke they were near the cottage, There was
Il declivity near by which young Mcguire feared
to pass in thc darkness. and hitching the morse
10 a tree he left his cousin n the buggy ana
went on foot to the cottage to get a lantern.
He came back with a lantern in less than five
minutes and found that his cousin had dlsap-
peared. He shouted for her, but there was TO
answer II she had left the carriage and II any
one carried her away there was not footstep
or other mark to tell the story. The rain had
washed them all away. He ran back to the cot
tage thinking that she might have gone 'he'e
after him. but they had not seen her thelef
He alarmed the neighboring camps and cot
tages and organized A search for her. II ne
search widened until the men reached the edge
of the lake Then Emil Hopkins. Of Boonton'
dived repeatedly, thinking that he might Ihd
the body if the school teacher had wandered 10
the lake by mistake. but he was unsuccessiui-
The report of the young woman S dlsappedrdHc"
spread. and in two three hours huhdreos
wore searching for her vainly through the "oouS
and in the lake
Miss Mcguire is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs
John T Mcguire. of Brooklyn. With her par
ents she came last Thursday to spend fe"
Of ha- uncle Bernard Magulre,
at NarvsyiIIe lust outside OF Dover Mrs Ma
ruire has been on the verge of nervous pros
tration for some time. and was gradually re-
covering when her daughter was lost NO one
has told her of Miss Maguire's disappearance
for fear that the shock may drive her insane.
She will not he told until every inch OF the
woods has been searched and II becomes GER
tain that her daughter has been lost beyond
every possibility Of finding her
The searchers were encouraged once by learn
ing that two negroes had told OF meeting 4
Young woman near the Sunnyside Hotel who
had inquired about a place to stay for the night
one Of the negroes however, found an
hour later and he said that the woman he had
seen wore black suit and "a hat. while Miss
Mcguire had on a gray skirt and white waist
and was bareheaded. At Hurdtown. a few miles
from Nolan's Point. there are abandoned mines,
and il is possible for. any one wandering about
fn the darkness 20 fall down some unprotected
shaft Of which there number in the woods.
At the home of Bernard Mcguire there was
ever increasing anxiety as the hours passed.
Miss Agnes Mcguire. a daughter, teegraphed for
the missing girls father to come from Brooklyn
He arrived to-day. and when told that his
daughter had not been seen since early last
evening he was almost distracted.
At her home in Brooklyn last night, At NO. "a
Second Place. nothing was known OF the disap-
pearance of Miss Mcguire. Her father, who Is
a grocer I'm Columbia street received telegram
at noon yesterday saying Agnes is H.
When she went TO Dover r week ago to visit
her uncle. q trip she has taken every summer
for several years. she was in poor health On
the receipt Of the telegram from Dover yester-
day, Mr. Mcguire and her elder sister. who has
been keeping house in her mothers absence.
started for Dover at once