Bellows Falls Times

How to find Dead Bodies. The manner of finding Carbee's body in Shrewsbury Pond, is said to have been singular. We have before heard of putting quicksilver into a loaf of bread, which put into water, would float to the spot where the dead body lay, and there remain. In this case it is said that as soon as the loaf was put in the water it started off like a live animal against a strong current of wind and waves, and went as fast as some men who followed it could row a boat, till it came to where the body was found, which was sixty feet under water, and there stopped! A day or two after another loaf of wheat bread (the other, it is said, was brown) was put in the same pond but there was no unusual manifestation. There may be something to this. Gold or silver about the body may attract quicksilver, but we are not prepared to believe all we hear about this case in Shrewsbury. If there is anything to it will some one give us the circumstances and explain the philosophy of it.