Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1916 — GIRL DIES AS PREDICTED [ARTICLE]

GIRL DIES AS PREDICTED

Fortune Teller Told Pennsylvania Girl to Avoid Trips on the Water.

Phoenixville, Pa.—The body of Dorothy Barr, the seventeen-year-old girl of this place, who drowned in the Schuylkill river, was found about one mile from the spot where she lost her life when her canoe upset. Lock Tender Hennessy, at the Pawling locks, saw the body floating in the river and recovered *it from a boat. The drowning of Miss Barr and the finding of her body followed the prediction made a week before the girl’s death by a fortune teller whom she and a girl friend consulted in a spirit of fun. The seer then told Miss Barr to avoid all trips or voyages upon the water, and said she would take such a trip and would drown. The fortune teller also predicted that after four days her body would be recovered. The girl laughed at the clairvoyant, but the prophesy was vividly recalled to the mind of her companion when the body was recovered.