I saw no chance for trickery in Le Roy's act.
Another nail act was that of Alexander Weyer, who, either by superior strength or by a peculiar knack, could hold a nail between the middle fingers of his right hand with the head against the palm, and drive it through a one-inch board.

But since this act did not get him very far either on the road to fame, or toward the big money--he turned to magic and finally became one of the leading Continental magicians, boasting that he was one of the few really expert sleight-of-hand magicians of the world.
I met Weyer at Liege, Belgium, where we had an all-night match with playing cards.

He admitted that there were some tricks he did not know, but he claimed that after once seeing any magician work he could duplicate the tricks.

On this occasion, however, he was unable to make the boast good.
Another clever performer of those days was Mexican Billy Wells, who worked on the Curio platform.

His act was the old stone-breaking stunt, already explained, except that he had the stones broken on his head instead of on his body.