The Washington herald., 1907-08-26

New York, Aug 25.-AIiss Agnes Ma
guire, a school-teacher in public school
S. Brooklyn and her cousin. Charles
Mcguire, of Dover, y. J., were riding
in a buggy along the shore Of Lake Ho-
patcong, Saturday night, when they were
overtaken by a violent thunderstorm.
They hurried 10 a cottage known as
Camp Look Whoshere. and the young
man left his cousin alone behind the
storm flaps of the buggy while he hur-
ried into the cottage to get a suit case.
When he returned, within five minutes,
Miss Mcguire was not in the buggy. For
twenty-four hours a hundred campers
along the shores Of the lake have search
ed for her and not a trace Of the missing
woman have they found.
The woman had given up her school In
Brooklyn last February because she was
near a breakdown. Her nerves were still
weak when she visited her uncle, Bernard
Mcguire, last Thursday When the sud
den thunderstorm overlook her Saturday
night she was terrified by the flashes Of
lightning.
Charles Mcguire had begun 10 lash his
horse when the first heavy drops came
down. AS the storm increased he had
urged the beast TO its utmost He prom
fsed his cousin that he would not be out
Of the buggy five minutes. and after he
htched the horse TO tree or the road
above the summer cottage, he tucked the
storm curtains about the white. anxious
face of the woman.
Finds Buggy Deserted.
Mcguire dashed down a little hill into
the cottage, found his suit case and
scrambled back up the rise through the
trees. The rain was coming down in tor
rents, and the vivid lightning played close
to the tops of the trees. Mcguire pulled
back the curtains TO step into the buggy.
The woman was gone.
All Saturday night, men from all the
camps along the shore Of the lake near
Nolans Point. the place where the woman
had last been seen. secured the hills.
Emmett Hopkins, of BoontOn, n. J., one
OF the visitors at the Camp Look Who's
here. went out in a boat with a flare
torch and drove repeatedly into the deep
water along the shore in front of the
cottage.
All the woods and fields ia a radius OF
four miles of Nolans Point and about
that end of the lake were gone through
thoroughly to-day Inquiries were made
at farmhOuses and at other camps along
the lake shore; descriptions Of the missing
woman were left with every farmer and
traveller along the country roads.
Only One slender Clev.
Only the sIenderest kind of a clew was
discovered. One OF the campers reported
that about 9. this morning, he met two
colored men near the Sunnyside Hotel,
about two miles from Nolans Point, who
said that. about O'Clock, young woman
met them on the road near that place and
asked them if they could direct her to
place where she could stay.
They told her of the Sunnyside Hotel,
and thought nothing more OF the incident
until later, when they heard of the search
that was being made. Tonight an attempt
was made 10 find the two negroes, and
learn more definite particulars about their
meeting with the woman.
Near HuTdtoWn. q few miles north Of
the lake, on the road 70 WOOdport, there
are several abandoned shafts of old iron
mines that are unprotected by barriers
and overgrown with undeTbTush. Though
the searching parties passed these pits
several times, no one was lowered into
them, on the possibility of finding the
woman's body there. There is a re-
mote chance that Miss Mcguire may have
wandered through the woods IN the storm
and fallen into one of these shafts.