ELECTRIC MAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 224, 20 September 1924, Page 7

ELECTRIC MAN.

MOSQUITOES WILL NOT BITE HIM. 3800-VOLT SHOCK. RABATJL, September 11. A man named Byrne, whom mosquitoes will not bite, will to-morrow receive a malarial injection from Dr. Cilento at Rabaul. __.••• Eleven years ago, when rJ_ing in a tram in George Street, Sydney, the overhead' wire broke, and Byrne received a 3800-volt shock, -eing hurled into Paling's doorway from the tram. He spent 11 weeks in the Sydney Hospital, but the electricity could not be dispelled from this human storage battery. A similar ease was that of a man named Hagan, at Southport (Eng.), with whom Byrne corresponds. If Byrne's treatment is successful, Hagan proposes to come to Raibaul. . The late Sir Herbert Maitland, the distinguished surgeon, five months ibefore he died told Byrne that malaria was the only hope. The theory is that it will sweat the bone in which the electricity is lodged. The charge turned; Byrne blue from head to foot. He is now of normal colour, and since coming to the tropics suffers no pain.