The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-28
Missing Garment Lends More
Mystery to Drowning Of
Brooklyn Teacher.
MAY HAVE BEEN SUICIDE
Coroner Undecided About Yer.
dict in Miss Maxuire's Case.
Body Taken to Brooklyn
fer Burial - Services
Also at Lake.

LAKE HOPATCONG. Aug. 2S.-The
mystery as to how Agnes Therese Ma
suire, the Brooklyn school teacher, met
cong has been deepened by the inability
of the searchers to find. the gray silk
skirt which she wore when she disap-
peared from the carriage near Camp
Look Who's Here.
The condition of the clothing which
remained shows hat the skirt had
been violently torn from the young
woman, but whether 1t occurred during
her dying struggles in the water, or
whether it was ripped off during a
light with an unknown slayer, is a
point which the police have not yet
cleared up.
General opinion as to how the girl
came to her death is divided. Many be-
lieve that the girl, in a fit Of temporary
insanity, induced by the thunderstorm
n luz to her weakened mental condi-
ton, deliberately walked out into the
waters of the lake with the purpose of
taking her life. On the other hand,
many assert their belief that her death
was due to accident and that, being
afraid to stay in the buggy in the thun-
storm, she wandered into the woods
and eventually stepped off the railroad
,embankment.
The body was found directly in the
channel, where the water is about eight
feet deep. The men who recovered it
and the boatmen about the lake are of
the opinion that the remains had only
just risen to the surface and that the
fact that 1t was found in the channel
effectually prevented any determine
ton as to where the girl entered the
water.
Coroner Hitchins, while not express
ing such a view in his official state
ment, believes that the girl committed
suicide.
"Only God knows how Miss Mcguire
met her DEATH" said the coroner. Be
cause of the mystery surrounding the
case 1 called in a physician to make a
thorough examination. From what he
tells me the verdict Is that h young
woman either committed suicide or
was accidentally drowned. 1t is GER
tain that she was drowned and was
not killed before she entered the
water.
"While I know that there are many
strange circumstances to the case, I
am satisfied that there was no foul
play, and 1 do not intend to make
any further investigation"
The body was taken to Wharton,
where a brief funeral service was con-
Quoted by the Rev. John Gerhardt
Funke, of st. Mary's Church, n the
Rev. Paul T. Carew, of the Church of
the Sacred Heart, Dover. Today the
body was taken to the home of the
girls parents, at 81 Second place.
Brooklyn. The funeral will be tomor-
row from st. Stephens Church, that
borough.
Miss Maguire's father said that he
does not think his nephew, Charles, is
at all to blame, and that the girl had
apparently not suffered at the hands of
any one. There was no reason shown
for a desire on her part to end her life
other than the fact that she a been
In Ill health with a stubborn v
trouble.
Miss Marie Mcguire, sister of the
dead girl, said:
aWe are at a loss to account for my
sisters death, except that she had been
nervous and was recently treated for
heart trouble. We think, knowing Der
fear of lightning, that she jumped from
the buggy and. thinking that she was
running toward the house. stumbled
into the water"