Electrically Immune. REMARKABLE FEATS.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 12, 1 October 1906, Page 350

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, to attempt the task, but Mr. Davis pleaded that the execution of criminals at Singsing Prison took up too much of his time already. Senor Godinez thrives on 5,000,000 volts of electricity. At Singsmg they give a man only 7,000 volts to put him to death. Lord Kelvin, the famous British physicist, once took a million volts of electricity, and lived through it, Senor Godinez says The world wondered at it, and then Nikola Tesla went a step further, and took a half-million more. This was the record up to the time that Senor Godinez completed an electric machine, from which he occasionally receives mild shocks of 2,000,000 volts, and recently, he says, he 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, turned on 5,000,000 volts, and he never quivered. Around his wrists were coils of copper wire, and between the two hands lightning flashed back.

Hs is soon to go on the stage, where he will have himself handcuffed to the electric generator, and. mvite any expert m the audience to come on the stage and turn on the current. Another of his performances will be to let a constant stream of lightning pass straight through his body. The lightning will strike Senor Godmez, 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 Godmez declared in an interview, " they made me washmy hands in some 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 bod}'."