SEARCHING FOR OWN BODY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 214, 19 August 1931, Page 6

SEARCHING FOR OWN BODY

SEQUEL TO GIRL'S JOKE A girl's search for her own "body" was the main feature of a strange tragi-comedy on the banks of the River Crouch, near Hull Bridge, Essex, England, recently. It is said that on leaving a South-end-Rayleigh omnibus at Hull Bridge ithe girl remarked: "Where is the river? I am going to drown myself." The remark was reported to the police when the omnibus reached Rayleigh, and an officer hurried to Hull Bridge, nearly four miles away. To help in the search he asked a man and a girl whom he encountered On the way to go with him. He (did not know that the girl was the hue mentioned to him as "going to commit suicide," and neither did the girl, who joined for some hours in a torchlight search for the supposed missing woman. Then her interest in "the girl who had drowned herself" prompted her to ask for further details. ""Why that's | me," she exclaimed when told of the remark which started the search, and explained that she had spoken jokingly.