Evening star., 1907-08-26
VANIsHES, LEAVES no TRAIL
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE Or
YOUNG WOMAN I'm WOODS.
Hundreds Hunt for Brooklyn Teacher.
Miss Agnes Maguire's Cousin Left
Her for a Few Minutes.

NEW YORK. August 26.-Miss Agnes Ma
gure, a teacher in public school 50. Brook
lyn. and her cousin. Charles Mcguire of
Dover. N. J.. were riding in a buggy along
the shore of Lake Hopatcong Saturday even
ing when they were overtaken by a violent
thunderstorm They hurried to a cottage
known as 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 suit case. When
he returned. within five minutes. Miss Ma
guire was not in the buggy. For thirty
hours 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 Brook
lyn 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 Thursday last.
Charles Mcguire had left a suit case at a
cottage at the camp where he had stayed
recently, and asked his cousin to drive with
him to get It. They were well on their way
when the storm came upon them suddenly.
Miss Mcguire was terrified by the flashes
of lightning.
Leaves Her in Buggy.
. Charles began to lash his horse when the
first heavy drops came down. AS the storm
Increased he urged the beast to its utmost.
Stopping near the cottage at the camp.
he promised his cousin that he would not
be out of the buggy Ave minutes and after
ne hitched the horse to tree on the road
above the summer cottage he tucked the
storm curtains about the white anxious
face of the woman.
Mcguire dashed down a little hill into the
cottage. found his suit case and scrambled
back up the rise through the trees. The
ram was coming down in torrents and the
vlVld lightning played close to the tops Of
the trees. Mcguire pulled back the cur
tains to step into the buggy. The woman
was gone.
The Fruitless Search.
In a luil between the rumblings of thun-
der 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 at 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 above the noise of the storm
and explored all the hillside leading from
the road down to the camp. without sue
cess. Miss Mcguire had disappeared as
completely as though caught. up in the lap
Of the storm.
All Saturday night men from all the
camps along the shore. of the lake near
Nolan's Point, the place where the woman
had last been seen. secured the hills En-
NETT Hopkins of Boonton, N. J., one of
the visitors at Camp Look Who's Here,
went out in a boat with a flare torch and
dived repeatedly into the deep water along
the shore in front Of the cottage
Recruits Join Hunt.
When morning came yesterday word car
ried all about the lake that a woman had
slipped from sight and the band of search
ers 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 Ma
guire, came out to the lake, too. She fran.
tically implored the seafchets to find her
daughter and she Joined the bands of. peoS
pie that spread out fanwiSe over the Sur-
rounding 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
Nolans Point and about that end Of the
lake were gone through thoroughly. In
Quiries were made at farmhouses and at
other camps along the lake shore and de-
scriptions of the missing woman were left
with every farmer and Traveller along the
country roads.
Says He Saw Her.
Only one person saw her after her cousin
Charles had left her in the buggy. One of
the guests at Edward w. Kilpatricks
camp. called Castle Bandbox,, says that the
light from their cottage window was shin
ing across the road at the 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 men and make of down the hill toward
the lake in the direction he had taken. She
did not return to the buggy.