The sun., 1907-08-28
MISS MAGUIRE'S BODY FOUND
SCHOOL TEACHER WAS DROW NED
Nv LAKE HOPA2CONG.

hut Her skirt was Missing -uncer.
tain whether she Fen Into the Lake
Accidentally or Committed suicide.
The body OF Agnes Mcguire, the Brooklyn
school teacher who disappeared last satur-
day night at Lake Hopstoong. was found
in the lake yesterday morning by two camp
pers out rowing. Il was in about ten feet
Of water and about 200 yards from the shore
Of the lake where Camp Look Who's Here
10 situated. Tho buggy from which Miss
Mcguire disappeared was left by her cousin
standing near that camp
An examination made yesterday after
noon by Coroner Hitchins Of Wharton and
DR.. Domingo Sabater, a physician from
Morristown who ia staying at one OF the
camps. Disclosed no marks Of violence on
the body There 10 no doubt that the young
woman was drowned. but there Is no certain
evidence whether she fell into the lake
by mistake when she was wandering about
in the storm or deliberately threw herself
in to end her life. The Coroner 10 Of the
opinion that the girl committed suicide.
circumstance which led TO the belief
was the absence OF the silk skirt which the
girl wore. When the girl started on her
drive with her cousin, Charles Mcguire, on
Saturday night she wore white shirt waist.
a short silk jacket and gray silk skirt with
black stripes She left her Jacket in the
carriage. All OF the other clothes were on
the body save the silk skirt A careful ex-
animation made by the Coroner convinced
him that the girl must have removed this
outside skirt herself The other clothing
was in perfect order. There was a slight
tear In the corset. but hardly one that would
have been made by the skirt being torn of
violently
A mysterious thing about this skirt is
that nobody has found IL II the girl had
removed IL before she plunged into the lake
it would seem as IL it must have been discov-
cred by this time somewhere In the vicinity,
which is traversed continually by the sum-
mer visitors
DIR. 6abster. who was asked by the Coroner
TO examine the body. gave IL as his opinion
that the young woman had been in the water
for at least two days That the girl did not
rush into the lake from fright or because Of
her unacquaintance with the locality would
seem 10 be further borne out by the state
ment OF Mrs. Thompson, the wife Of a State
Senator. who has camp at the lake. Mrs.
Thompson had taken refuge in the Jersey
Central railroad station, which La on the
shore and not far from the camp She said
that she noticed young woman corre-
spending to the description Of Miss Mcguire
come into the station and wander around
for a few minutes in rather distracted man
L. tt>.s - Il r,,,N rhA NJ
was at its height then. Mrs. Thompson is
quite sure that the girl she saw was Miss
Mcguire
from lakes pavilion. which Is a popular
resort for the summer visitors from the
camps and hotels There were many
people in the casino. kept there by the
storm There is a dock in front and the
only deep water along the shore is at that
point Persons who heard Mrs. Thomp-
sons story felt sure yesterday that tho
young woman had gone to this dock and
thrown herself into the lake. II the woman
Mrs Thompson saw was Miss Mcguire
she had her skirt on at that time. She
certainly did not leave it at the casino and
the underbrush near by has been pretty
well searched
John Threefall and william Snyder.
two Of the campers. were the finders OF
the body yesterday morning. 1t was hoat-
ing face upward In that part Of the lake
between Hslsey Island and the casino.
TIE men towed it TO the casino and there
it was viewed later by the Coroner and the
doctor The news spread around the lake
and there was a rush Of the summer visitors
in boats to the landing.
Charles Mcguire, the girls cousin. who
left her In the carriage while he went into
the camp to get a suit case and who has
been almost frantic from grief since she
disappeared, was notified and he told her
father, who had gone back to Dover for
the night. Late yesterday afternoon the
body was taken to Wharton. There a
funeral service was conducted by the Rev.
John Gerhardt Funke Of St. Marys Church
and the Rev. Paul T. Carew OF the Church Of
the Sacred Heart, Dover. Last evening
the body was brought to the home OF the
girls parents at 27 Second place. Brooklyn.
The funeral will be on Thursday from st.
Stephens Church. that borough.
Miss MAguire's father has said that he
does not think his nephew Charles is at all
to blame and that the girl had apparently
not suffered i'll from any one. There was
no reason shown for q desire on her part
to end her life other than the fact that
she had been in i'll health with stubborn
nervous trouble.
According to some OF those who knew
the girl she became interested in a young
man some time ago. Her parents are
Roman Catholics and this young man
was OF different faith. Whether for this
reason or some other the affair never came
to anything. but some OF Miss Maguire's
friends say that IL had a rather hurtful
effect upon her. Her relatives have stoutly
denied that there was anything In this
reported love affair. however. Charles
Mcguire says that on the way to the lake
the girl talked cheerfully about the see merry
and other things and gave no indication
of being In an unhappy frame of mind.
Miss Mcguire was a graduate OF the
Girls High School In Brooklyn and was
a musician. Her r>psrents say that it was
her studies and her close application to
her duties as teacher In Public School IS
that brought on her nervous trouble
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