The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-03-06
SELLS HIS SKULL
TO A PHYSICIAN
Clerk With a Hard Uranium
Makes a Queer Bargain.
H: GELS $500 FOR THE HEAD
II Is Double Thickness and Apparently Of
One Piece Breaks Dishes and
Sticks on II.
H: GELS $500 FOR THE HEAD

New York, March 6.-By an agreement
duly drawn up. signed and witnessed.
James Mandy. % years Of age living at
No. POI East Seventeenth street. has con-
tracted to sell his skull to DIR. NJ. A.
Utter. OF No. 50 St. Marks place. for $500,
the skull 10 be claimed after Mandy's
death.
BY the terms OF the agreement DR..
Utter is paying Mandy s. month. ana
Is TO pay IL until 500 has been given TO
Mandy. Should Mandy die before the
full amount has been paid the surgeon is
10 get the skull. The agreement states
that the purchase is made in the inter
ests of medical science.
Mandy was exhibiting his head In a mu-
scum last November, when he came un.
DER the eye OF DIR. Utter. He performed
feats that would kill or render uncon-
scious most men. These consisted IN
breaking heavy china plates. chair bgs
and heavy glassware over his head AZ
ter watching the performance for some
time DIR. liter remarked:
You have the most remarkable skull
have ever seen. come around 10 my OF
nee and I'll examine it,
HIS SKULL DOUBLE.
Mandy went TO the office OF DIR. liter
and after the examination the doctor
SAID the mans skull was a double one,
and was all one piece
Your skull is the most remarkable one
ever examined" the doctor told Mandy.
.d ana IN ttlhe the interest Of science L will
give you 500 for it,
II think too much OF life" replied
Mandy. and, any way, what good would
the 800 do me after you had my slull?''
''Oh, meant that more as joke" salo
the doctor, but II you wanted To sell IL
YOU would get the money in time to en-
JOY it
Mandy left the office. but had not gone
far. when he retraced his steps and
sought the doctor again.
Say" he said. "if you think that skull
OF mine will do you any good after am
dead will sell you my body for $500"
when first made that proposition to
you,' said DR. Utter, Il was joking. but
IL you are serious about il | will pay you
the $500 in monthly instalments OF s.. We
can make a -contract,-and- LII -haRe-tAa
skull, or If / die first I'll will IL TO the
Medical society"
Mandy said the terms suited him, and
few days later the contract was drawn
up In due legal form and signed in the
presence OF witnesses.
JOKE TO HIS FRIENDS
Mandy's contract soon became known
to his friends and they Joked him until
they grew tired OF it. They used to tell
him his skull was worth more than the
rest Of his body put together. and that he
carried his wealth under his hair, and
that II he lost his head he'd go TO the
poor house.
Mandy last night told how the contract
came To be made. He took visitor into
the dining room OF his home. and picking
up heavy vegetable dish poised II in the
air a minute. and then brought Il down
with a crash on his head. Then ne smiled
as he gazed on the fragments of the dish
that lay scattered about the room.
Mandy then went 10 the kitchen and
brought back broom stick. He whacked
himself on the top OF the head with it and
the stick broke I'm three pieces.
DR.. Utter was seen at his home. 80 St
Marks place, and admitted the existence
OF the contract. He said the contract was
locked up and he would not permit IL TO
be SEEN
1T Is true ] made contract with
Mandy to pay him $500 for his skull" said
Or. Utter, "and IL is true l am paying him
In instalments OF s. a month. His skull Is
the most remarkable one have ever
come in contact with. II Is all In one
piece apparently and that makes II so
solid as TO effectively guard the brain
That is why severe blow does not rem
der him unconscious"