The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-03-09
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aefef and his a.s,h aocs nei e0ms
untll ~ ite suinpst the euds paests
under be doctors knlfe The yuauf
mss is roins 20 demonstrate ths en
+ the vaudeville sisae presently bni
this hls msnasef eats H. a metre
4 Incident
ilo aBt tor an experiment ~ vbat
10 any hul ~ expert pte was eu IS
at' reproduction II an eiecific chait
and calmlt allowed phat appeared
10 hc iSou volts " electricity Tee
more than are used % kl in Sins
sing ~ be- ehot Into his bods
iie toso from, the chalt apparently
unaffected After an of which bis
manager CHALLENGED the warden
Of sins siur io perform on This
Young man the regulation process
of execution by electricity or II that
be refused. 10 take the chair he
uses for tho next cicctrocbtion there
with the guarantee that It will give
the same results 40 former chairs
have given
Norv Carbon. less Iron IN Hood.
Quill admits. of course. that he is
quite exceptional ny connecting
himself to an electric current by
means of n bronze bracelet attached
to the wire he can light a candle by
holding his hand above the wick a
thing which many electrical engin-
GERS have hitherto said to be impos-
siblc. He explains all this by the
statement that doctors have told
him that he has more carbon in his
makeup and less iron In his blood
than other people.
About a year and half ago, when
employed by an electric company In
San Francisco, Quill says he received
shock in the lower power house
which left him senseless on the
floor. It was estimated that 1890
volts had passed into his body An
ambulance was called and he was
given up for dead. But at the hospi-
/ tai heart stimulants were admins
tered His heart had stopped beat
ing and his blood no longer circula
ted, but two hours later he began
! to pitch about in bed, twiching spas
| medically, and little later he was
himself again That has led him INTO
vaudeville.
Yesterdays exhibition was In the
Office Of his manager, Joseph Ray
mond. at l416 Broadway Electricity
was brought to the transformer by
connection with the switchboard
IN the hall outside
Playing With Lightning.
Gum first placed around his
wrist broad copper bracelet attach
ed 10 the transformer. An assistant
turned on the current and held a
lighted candle before him. Quill held
his hand some two inches above the
flame, and the flame became n blu
ish green and leaned toward his
hand Then he blew out the candle,
held his hand above It, and the can
die sprang into flame again. The
assistant held It near his chin, and
IT again lighted.
Then the power was turned on so
that when Quill held a thimble with
In some three inches from the posi-
tive pole Of the transformer the cleo
tricity. looking like thick piece of
almost white-hot wire, sprang to 1t.
Quill, with cigarette In his lips,
leaned toward this, and in n moment
his cigarette was lighted. His assis-
tant then held In his glove-protected
hand piece OF carbon attached to
the end OF n charged wire. Quill held
another piece OF carbon in his teeth
touched the one his assistant held,
and In moment the one In his
teeth burst into flame,
He took an electric light bulb
from a lighted lamp. and held 1t be-
meath the negative pole OF the appar-
atus. Whitish green electricity |
sprayed over II til the bulb became |
nllod with greenish white light |
Quill then held the bulb In his teeth
and repeated this. When he replaced
the bulb on the lamp 1t burned dim
ly moment, and then burned out
The glass had been punctured.
Imitation of Death Scene
Finally an imitation OF the |
death chair" was pushed before
the apparatus and attached. IL was
a plain black. wooden chair, but 1t
had the high coffin like back on tho
seat, the copper strips on arms and
legs. and the connecting wires. The
cap, helmet-shaped, made also OF
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