Show body of drowned girl located by qu quicksilver ick silver london the ancient belief that it if a loaf loaded with quicksilver Is placed in a river or canal it will stop over the spot where the body of a drowned person lies has been tested with uth dramatic success at Ded bedworth worth england A girl named ethel wright aged fifteen of bedworth Bad worth disappeared disappears anter her hei purse was ft as found on the blink bank of 4 a canal but dragging of the w waterway failed to reveal tier 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 girls body was located and dragged ashore |