The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-19
Lunnon now has royalty to burn.
SELLS HIS EAR FOR s5ooo.
Man Who Agrees to Part With It Will
 Undergo Operation.

From the New York Times
 In an upper room in the residence of pr. A. L. Nelden at 13 East Twenty-ninth street last night, sleeping peacefully, was a man who. according to Dr. Neden, will, if nothing ontoward happens. be ly, ing tonight alongside western miner and minus a goodly portion of one ear The miner needs one ear to complete a set. The Pennsylvania man has only two ears. but needs money and has agreed to break the pair for s500O Dr. Nelden, with the aid of a small surgeons knife and few silver threads, will this afternoon un- dertake to make the transfer, which he says is a thing to be accomplished with the utmost ease.
 Out of many hundreds of applicants who responded to an advertisement recently in- serted in the papers offering the s50OO for an ear Dr. Nelden says he has chosen this Pennsylvanian, who is forty-seven years old or seven years older than the western man who wants the ear. He is q married man, but his wife has given her consent and has come to New York to be present at the operation and will attend him dur ing the ten days required for the first part of the operation.
 Dr. Nelden was visibly annoyed last night upon hearing a report that there was an old law, which has long been con- sidered extinct, but which has never been repealed, making the cutting off of mans ear or otherwise disfguring him a felony under the heading of mayhem, and carrying with 1t a penalty of not more than fifteen years imprisonment. It was said that District Attorney Jerome might resurrect this old blue law and enforce 1t at some inconvenient stage Of the grating process.
 q have instructed my attorney to visit Mr. Jerome,' said Dr. Nelden, .and find out if there will be any interference. l scarcely believe that I will have any trouble, but if I find that MT. Jerome will down to Philadelphia or Atlantic City and perform the operation there.
 If all goes we'll I will perform the first part of the operation tomorrow af- ternoon or at the very latest on We'd nesday morning. l shall be assisted by two surgeons. friends of mine. and my lawyer will also be present. and will al- low one representative of a press asso- ciation to attend.
 q will begin in this manner" said the doctor, seizing the ear of a reporter who sat near and doubling it over until it hung down upon his neck. "I will start at the back of the ear a considerable distance back, taking a large piece of skin in order to get a good hold for my silver thread stitches" Here the doctor grasped a hand full of skin and drew it in from the report CTS neck "Then I will cut upward and around the ear to the orifice and bind the two mems heads closely together. I will use simply a local application of coacine, as ether or chloroform would be impracticable. The men will lie In op- posite directions for ten days. I will then remove the remainder of the ear, and the man from whom the ear has been taken will go his way with a bandage around his head"
 The doctor took up a very good imita- ton of an ear made of some sort of pink ish substance. Here is a very good quail ity of each which firm offers for $100 he said Tt can be stuck on in the morn- ing and removed at night. But the man who Is going to sell his ear objects to it on the question of price"
 Docs the man object to wearing his hair long to hide the discrepancy, doc- tor?" was asked.
 We'll replied pr. Nelden T have recommended that he obtain an ear-wig. but he wouldn't listen to me-
 District Attorney Jerome when seen yes- terday said that it was not his business to warn persons against breaking the law, but that in cases the law was vio- lated he would act. He refused to com