SAY BREAD LOCATED BODY.
NEWTOWN, Conn., Sept. 14 (AP). - A method described in Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" to recover a body in the Mississippi River was duplicated in part here yesterday, according to Senior Sergeant W. E. Bushy of the State Police, who says he found the body of Mrs. George Lewis of Bridgeport by allowing loaves of bread to float over the waters of Lake Zoar. Mrs. Lewis was drowned when she fell from a boat.
One loaf of bread, according to members of the State Police, remained stationary over the body.
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