New-York tribune., 1907-08-27
VAIN HUNT FOR GIRL.
POLICE OFFER REWARD.
RelatiUes Haze Fruitless Search tor
Hiss Mcguire at Lake Hopatcong-
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IBy Telephone TO The Tribune
Dover n j. Aug 26-The disappearance sat
urday night of Miss Agnes Mcguire az me
threshold of her camp at Lake Hopatcohs h'iS
given the police of this part of the state "ha1
probably will be the mystery of the year 70 un-
raveI In sound of her friends. almost-ln We"
of them during the lightning fashes-the young
Broo,sIyn schoolteacher left absolutely no trace
behind her when she abandoned the Ouggy III
the wild storm If she fed in terror through
the thick brambles and underDrusn- OF he
down the precfpitOus boulder strewn DUH 20
.bo IaLe so;ue shred of her clothes would nave
been torn off to serve as sign, 9r the 0LuSh
would have been beaten down in a plain trail-
For more than fifteen feet out from tine shore
rho vraters of the lake too shallow for a per-
SON 10 drown Had this happened. her pody
Inevitably must have been va5hf1 ashore eS
,bs s.rans westerly wind. whILh has blown Efre
for two days Moreover. launches have patro'iea
every inch of the waters of Glen cove an"
found no trace of Miss Mcguire III she had Oeeh
attacked and carried off. there would nave been
some. marks of the struggle about the oussS'
when her cousin returned few minutes laeef-
The cottage of Edward w. Fitzpatrick is close
To where young Mcguire tied his horse 20 go up
to Camp Look whOs-Here to get lantern so
Tho, tho sounds Of a struggle probably would
rave reached there above the noise of the storm
Tho noIfce are now seeking find woman
who d,sappeared without leaving even a foot
print behind her. The difficulty OF the proo-
lem appears to have paraIyzed the police. for
with the exception OF the chief of police OF
Dover and the chief of the borough OF Hopat-
cong no work is being done The Sherln mas
refused to do anything and the minor officers
are following his example. About tne same
amount Of interest is being shown by the otner
campers at the cove with the exception of those
~oza . a
school teachers relatives have worked until eN-
hausted Several Of them patrolled the shore
I'm launches. where the water is so shallow tnas
everv foot of the bottom could be seen Others
bsa, about in the brush with equal lack Of sue
cess.
Charles Mcguire her cousin. who Is clerk
in the post office here and in whose care she
was when she disappeared is on the verge OF
nervous collapse. Her mother. who came mere
suffering from extreme nervousness IS alSo
ready to collapse. Her uncle. Bernard ana ner
father and her brother Edward. who came
here yesterday from Brooklyn with her younger
sister, worked without rest all day
AS the search advanced IL became more and
more apparent that young woman, slight ana
nervous from continued Ill health. would have
found ii impossible have gone as far as they
did. At Hurdtovn. some miles from here. there
are several abandoned mine shafts. and the
theory vas advanced to-day that she might
have wandered that far away and fallen down
one of them The difficulties of the searching
party proved that this theory was untenaole-
If she fed frightened by the storm the search
Ing party believes that her body must be Win
in q comparatively short distance from whers
the buggy was hitched. yet all that ground has
been covered thoroughly without the slightest
clew resulting
{c raI r1-itE
rocks. which a man In full strength would have
difficulty in getting over in safety and which
would make such travel impossible for Miss
Mcguire
As usual In such the Dover police. who
have offered reward for any trace Of Miss Ma
guire have received several reports from and Of
persons who thought they had seen Miss Ma
guire or some one who looked like her None OF
these reports has proved to be OF any use The
last one came from Pete" Doyle. an emplOye at
the icehouse about two miles down the lake
from where she disappeared He said he saw a
young woman early on Sunday morning picking
flowers on the road back of the icehOuse- The
woman. ne says. answered Miss Maguire's de-
scriptiOn but as there was nothing unusual IN
her appearance. there would have been in a
woman out all night I'm a storm. the police. while
looking into his story. are in no wise optimistic
of it's leading anything
guest at Edward W. KiIpatriCk's camp. Just
across the road from where the buggy was tied.
may have Miss Mcguire after her cousin left
her He says that shaft OF light from the cot
tage played on the buggy. and ne woman
step from it few minutes after Mcguire left
it, and run down TO the beach apparently 70
follow the man. Yet there footprint in
the sof. soil when young Mcguire returned and
no trace of any having gone toward the
shore at that point Two negroes were reported
To have directed woman resembling Miss Ma
guire 10 a hotel early Sunday morning When
they we're found. however, they said that the
woman they had met wore a black skirt MISS
Maguire wore a gray that night
The Chief of Police of Dover. besides advertts-
ing a reward for the finding of the schoOlteachsr
or her body has sent out handbills broadcast
containing the offer OF the reward and a fuE
description of her. Places which could not be
reached by mail at once he got on the tele-
phone The Sheriff has done nothing