“INSULATED BOY”
ELECTRIC SHOCK SURVIVED. Most amazed youngster in Britain today is 10-year-old Ernest Stevens, of Cookham Rise, Berkshire, a boy whose insulating limbs are astounding doctors. He has powers of resistance to electricity equal to those of 10 grown men. Lately he was playing with a fallen telephone wire which had been thrown over a main overhead cable, when 7,000 volts flashed through his body and burned the ground he was standing on. That voltage is enough to light every house in his village. He was taken to Maidenhead Hospital unconscious, badly burned about the head and body. All the fingers and ihe thumb of his right hand had been burned off. The doctors shook their heads. Ernest was nqt expected to live.- But a
few hours later Ernest had recovered consciousness. Now, with the exception of his burns, Ernest is fully recovered.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1939, Page 2
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