ELECTRICALLY IMMUNE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 143, 18 June 1906, Page 2

ELECTRICALLY IMMUNE.

REMARKABLE FEATS. The possession of a, remarkable power of withstanding electric currents has led Senor Francisco Godinez, of Brooklyn, to issue invitations to any one who would like to try to "electrocute" him (writes the New York correspondent of the Daily Express). He even asked Mr. Davis, the New York State electrician, i * it ? m V t the but Mr. Davis pleaded that the execution of criminals at bingsing Prison took up too much oi nis time already. Senor Godinez thrives on 5,000 000 volts of electricity. At Singsing they give a man only 7000 volts to put him to death. Lord Kelvin, the famous liritisn. physicist, once took a million volte of electricity, and lived through it, Senor Godinez says. The world wondered at it, and then Nikola Tesln wen*a step further, and took a half-million more. This was the record up to tli« time that Senor Godinez completed an electric machine, from which he oc9 Ca nnn 11 n a f^ y " ceives mU d shocks of 2,000,000 volts, and recently, he says, ho took the limit of 5,000,000. The secret which enables Senor Godinez to make his body a safe conductor of almost any amount of electricity was discovered, he says, after long experimental work. He has given an exhibition with his machine before medical men. They turned on 5,000,000 volts, and li 6 never quivered. Around hia wrists were coils of copper wire, and [ between the two Lands lightning flashed back. He is soon to go on the stage, where he will have himself handcuffed tp the electric generator, and invite any expert in the audience to come on the stage and turn on the current. Another of his, peifurmances will be to let a constant stream of lightning pa6S 6traight through his body The lightning will strike Senor Godinez, who is a tall young man, just beneath the ribs and go out at the small of the back. "When the doctors tested me," Senor Godinez declared in an interview, "tliev made me wash my hands in aome kind of acid, thinking I might have some chemical painted on them to conduct the electricity around in a circle. I washed my hands in what they gave me, and I convinced them that the electricity passed through my body."