DROWNED BODIES
LOCATED BY MAN
SECRET, MYSTERIOUS POWER
(United Press Association —By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 12.30 p.m.)
LONDON, April 23
John Clarke, a Leicestershire lariner, and water diviner, at the request of the police, has located four -drowned bo-dr.M in the past fortnight with a. piece of copper wire and hazel twig.
He rolls the wire round each arm, and his fingers with a blue ■liquid—'li is own secret preparation. Then follow vigorous twitches of the twig. He says: "If I handle something belonging to the missing person I am able to locate him blindtoldeu.”
The liquid in conjunction with the wire act s as a magnet, and when he locates a body he receives an electric shock.
Clark e has been invited by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities to submit to a physical examination to disclose the secret and mysterious power.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1933, Page 5
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