FARMER’S STRANGE POWER
LOCATION OF BODIES. DROWNED PERSONS RECOVERED. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received April 24, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 23. Mr John Clarke, a Leicestershire farmer and water diviner, at the request of the police has located four drowned bodies in the past fortnight with a piece of copper wire and a hazel twig. He rolls the wire round each arm, smears his fingers with 'a blue liquid (ills own secret preparation), and follows vigorous twitches of the, twig. He says: “If I handle something belonging to a missing person I am able to locate him blindfolded." The liquid in conjunction with the wire acts as a magnet. When Clarke locates a body he receives an electric shock: Clarke has been invited by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities to submit to a physical examination to disclose the secret of his mysterious power. _____________
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18928, 24 April 1933, Page 7
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