The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-27
Paterson Men With Crap
ping Hooks. Solve MyS-
terry Of Disappearance.
NO MARKS ON HER BODY
Was Fished Up Frem Waters Of
Lake Hopatcong Within ESQ
Yards of Where She Left
Her Cousins Buggy Dur.
ing Thurder Storm.
Ispecial 70 the EvenIng Star. ]


MT. ARLINGTON STATION, Aug.
7.-The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of Miss Agnes Mcguire, a
teacher In the Brooklyn public schools.
whose complete disappearance near No
lan's Point, Lake Hopatcong. occurred
during a space of five minutes on Sat-
urdey night, when she was left alone
in a buggy about the time heavy
shower broke over the Muscanetcong
hills, was cleared this morning.. when
her body was found in the lake by three
men.
Hundreds of persons had searched the
heavy woods that skirt the shores OF
the lake, and for miles around, from
the minute the news of the disappear
ance spread among the many summer
sojourners at the lake, and weary and
tired from their tramps over the rocky
crags and across the many ravines.
they returned to their bungalows and
tents last night, feeling certain that
the waters of the lake hid the mystery
of the disappearance.
Among those who had been untiring
in their efforts to solves the mystery
were William Snyder, John Chrelsan
and John Darrison, all of Paterson,
and this morning they began to drag
the little inlet in front of the camp
Miss Mcguire and her cousin, Charles
Mcclure, of Dover, had intended to
visit on Saturday night About $3.50
o'clock this morning their efforts We're
rewarded when the graphing hooks
caught in something, and when they
a., for lla NV H.
terry was solved.
The point where the body was found
was between Halsey Island and Aliens
bathing pavilion, less than 250 yards
from the point where her cousin left
her in the buggy Saturday night.
Eight members of Miss Maguire's
family. four men and four women,
paced nervously up and down the lake
shore in front of Camp Lookout all
morning A few minutes before the
body was recovered Constable Christie
stepped UP and made an effort to con-
sole them. Just then a shout came
from a little group of searchers on the
lake and the body was brought to
the shore, only a short distance from
the point where the buggy was tied
when she disappeared.
The coroner of Morris County was noti-
fed of the finding Of the body and directed
that 1t be removed to an undertaking es-
tabishment. So far as could be observed
there were no marks of violence on the
hodv. and but for the action of the water
If was not dlsfgured. The graphing hooks
caught in her clothing.
The theory is now advanced that Miss
Mcguire, who had been on the verge of
nervous prostration, became thoroughly
frightened at the approaching storm and
in her frantic efforts to hide somewhere
rushed from the buggy and fell Off the dock
a short distance from the buggy. There is
no current in the lake and 1t Is believed
that she fioundered about In the water
some time before sinking, in all probability
only short distance from where her body
was recovered.
Miss Mcguire was visiting at her uncle's
home in Dover. N. j., when on Saturday
evening her cousin, Charles Mcguire, a
clerk in the Dover postoffice, took her for
a drive to Camp Lookout at Nolan's Point
at Lake Hopatcong.. They arrived at the
camp after dark and just as thunder
storm was about to occur. Hitching his
horse to a tree, Charles Mcguire left his
cousin waiting In the carriage while he
went to the camp to get some clothing.
q said he was absent only a few min
Mes. but when he returned, Agnes was
gone. leaving no trace of the route she
had taken. Charles said he supposed the
Young woman, who was of a nervous tenn
nerament, became frightened by the vivid
f1ashes of lightning after he left her alone
and. irving to reach the camp, lost her
vav In the woods. The body was brought
M with a graphing iron in front of the
camp.