Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-16
RELATED SEARCH
FOR MISSING MAN
BEGUN BY POLICE
Duncan Macmillan Thought to
Have Drowned in the
Passaic River.

Fifty hours after scores of frightened
mill girls heard the drowning mans
shrieks, the authorities of Newark and
East Newark today began a search for
the body OF Duncan Macmillan, 20
years old, of 212 Grant avenue, East
Newark, who is supposed to have top
pied into the Passalc river from the
draw Of the Clay street bridge satur-
day. The delay was caused by the re-
fusal OF jeremiah Riordan. superin-
tendent Of the bridge, to admit that
anyone had fallen from the draw He
insisted that the object seen moving in
the water, now believed to have been
young MacMillan's body. was an empty
nail keg.
AS the bridge is county property, the
police could take no hand IN the matter
until an official report was made to
them.
Macmillan was the son of Donald
Macmillan, of Ala North Third street,
East Newark He was employed in
Clark's Thread MIL No. l, Passaic
street. this city. and made his homo
with sister. Mrs. James Gordon, of
212 Grant avenue, East Newark. He
was on his way to work Saturday
morning, approaching the Clay street
bridge with Patrick Fitzsimmons. of
948 John street, East Newark, when he
heard the whistle at No. mill and hur-
ried ahead that he might not be late
in reporting for work.
The thick fog hid MacMillan's form
from other persons in the vicinity, but
apparently he walked onto the draw
Just as 1t was being swung to admit
the passage OF the tug Florence. A
moment later fully a hundred persons
ON the approaches 10 the bridge, most
of them girls and young women, heard
a terrified scream In the fog, followed
a moment later by splash. Peerlng
through the mist, some of them dis
cerned a dark object floating away on
the tide The bridge-tenders' attention
was called to the occurrence, but they
dismissed the incident with the ex-
planation that the object was nothing
more than an empty nail-keg.
Among the girls who heard the boy s
screams were Miss Dora Sueter, of 278
Central avenue; Miss Mary Hines. of
III Orange street; Miss Mary Brown,
of SO Sherman avenue, East Newark,
and Miss Rose Cannon, of North Third
street, East Newark. Some of them
were so upset by the haunting cries of
the drowning lad that they did not re-
gain their composure throughout the
day.
Search Begun by Relatives.
The relatives of the missing lad be-
gan a search for him yesterday, but 1t
was not until today that Superinten-
dent Riordan admitted the object seen
in the river might have been young
MacMillan's body NThen Patrolman
McKenna, of East Newark. and Plain
clothesman Harmon. of the Second Pre-
cinct, this city, began an investigation.
The stories told by the girls who heard
MacMillRns cries, and Fitzslmmons,
who was the last to see him alive, led
to the order that grapplers drag the
river.
During the morning a water soaked
cap. identified as that worn by Mac
MILAN, was found in George Browns
stoneyard, Passajc street, on the New
ark bank of the river. 1t was found
that the cap had been seen floating in
the river yesterday by one of Browns
employees, who fished IT out and threw
II on the bank. Edward Kinsley, of 119
oliver street, Newark, was examined
by the police today. He said he saw
Macmillan walk off the end of the draw,
apparently thrown off his guard by the
thick fog enshrouding him.