The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-05

Get those buttons. and ] made the dress.
II II my sister,
Neither Robert Mccain. Jr.. nor Ethel
saw the body, which was too decompos.d
to aid them in identifying It. Detectives
We're sent TO the Mccain home with ar
ticles of jewelry and clothing. and NJ.
and Mrs. Mccain. mo broke down at
the first news. identified them as having
been worn by Miss Mccain when she
disappeared.
The brother and sister bore up braveIy
when they Identified the clothing Othe-
articles identified later were AN under
vest, corset and corset cover.
superficial examination OF the bod
was made by DIR. Charles Burning. super
intendent Of the Coney Island Hospital.
and DR.. Henry NJ. Kalvin. one of the stan
They said there was no evidence OF foul
play. DIR. Reichers made his autopsy
later. and he confirmed the opinion of the
two doctors. The stomach and internal
organs were removed by Dr. Reich.Ts,
and h" will begin an examination to-day.
Mr.. Mccain, the father, after he had
recovered from the shock Of his daughters
death. saio he WAS relieved OF his con-
slant worry OF not knowing whether she
was dead or alive and whether or not she
had fallen into evil hands.
Il am satisfied that my daughter met
ner death while she was highly nervous
he said. She had been i'll for three
months because we feared an absolute
nervous breakdown. and a physician had
been trying to build up her strength
She was in this state when she disap.
pearcd"
The police believe that Miss Mccain
left her home tn" morning of December
ia month ago y.sterduy--with the idea
OF suicide firm In her mind. In spite
OF all the newspaper space given to tho
ulSdpIsurdfg,. and The. can
eral knowledge of her description, they
had not been able To trace the girls
movements satisfactorily after s o'clock
that same afternoon.
Loretta Dore, Il nurse girl employed by
Mrs. William Prayer, who lives at the
Shelbourne Hotel near Seaside Park
saw Miss Mccain at 10 o'clock that
Thursday morning, although when Miss
Mccain LEFT home she said she was going
to the Home for Destitute Children, In
Sterling place, Brooklyn, where she gave
her services as "A teacher.
Miss Mccain did not seen nervous to
Miss Dore. Later the same morning
Miss Mccain appeared at Public School
100. on Coney Island. introduced her
self To- the principal as a teacher. giving
her right name, and said she would be
Interested in looking over the school.
She spent the day in the classrooms
OF three teachers. all Of whom remen-
bered her when II was learned that she
had disappeared At five minutes to I
O'Clock she left the school
An hour later Miss Lushasie and Miss
Goldstein. two OF the teachers who mad
entertained her at the public school, took
walk toward Brighton Beach. on the
ocean front they saw. seated on pile
of rocks twenty feet from the shelter
house in Seaside Park, young woman
whom they recognized as the caller Of
the afternoon. She did not appear to
lao. I,ptp "A haze Al,
enjoying the ocean breeze and medtating.
Think body Wedwed In Rocks.
The police believe that Miss Mccain
sat there until dark or some time later
and jumped into the ocean. There are
many larg. rocks Of uneven formation at
that point The police theory h that
her body became wedged between two
of these rocks, possibly not more than
five or eight feet from the shore line.
at low tide. and that the waves and the
tide failed to dislodge il until Saturday
night or early Sunday morning. when
the tremendous waves whipped up by the
hurricane jerked the body free from the
rocks and deposited II high up on the
shore.
The disappearance of Miss Mccain has
received more attention in official circles
and from the newspapers than any other
disappearance of recent years, except that
of Miss Dorothy Arnold. which has not
yet been solved. Miss Mccain was a
church worker. and a giver of her ser
vices in social uplift work. She was %
years old, good looking and popular I'm
church and with her friends.
The Thursday morning OF her disap-
pearance she burst into tears. for no APP
parent reason, at the breakfast table.
Her mother had been used to unexplained
tears from Miss Mccain for the previous
three months. She soothed the girls ner-
vousness away. and when Miss Mccain
left home at o'clock she was In her
usual spirits.
When she failed to return that night
her mother and father became nervous.
but did nothing The .next day Mr..
connected with the wholesale grocery firm
OF Austin, Nichols n Co.. called upon
Mayor Kline, an old friend Of his. and
through tho Mayors activities the Police
Department was prevailed upon to do its
best work in finding her.
This awaited nothing, and a day or two
later the family called in the newspapers.
hoping that published pictures OF the girl
might induce some one to come forward
with clue, The impression then was
that the girls nervous state had caused
aphasia. DR., Roger Durham, who had
been treating the girl for her nervous
ness for three months, said that he be-
lieved her mental condition might cause
aphasia.
As the days passed into weeks hope OF
the girls return grew smaller, even though
Mr.. Mccain offered $1,000 reward. with
no strings ia it, for the recovery OF his
daughter, The family received hundreds
OF false clues which were run down by
detectives and newspaper reporters. Sew
eral efforts were made to extort money
from the family. and It was only week
ago last Saturday that Robert McCann,