Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 24, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 January 1933 — Body of Drowned Girl Located by Quicksilver [ARTICLE]

Body of Drowned Girl Located by Quicksilver

London. —The ancient belief that if a loaf loaded with quicksilver is placed in a river or canal it will stop over the spot where the body df a drowned person lies has been tested with dramatic success at Bedworth. England. A girl named -■‘Ethel Wright, aged fifteen, of Bedworth,’ disappeared. Later her purse was found on the bank of a canal, but dragging of the waterway failed to reveal her body. An uncle, remembering that ancient superstition, put a quantity of quicksilver in a loaf of bread and, accompanied by police, threw it into .the water. At the spot where it came to rest near a bridge the girl’s body was located and dragged ashore.