New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-08
OFFERS s., 900 FOB NEW EAR
Mining Han Would Bug, as He Is
To Be Married, PerhaDs.

Any healthy person desiring to dispose Of one
ear can obtain therefor the sum of 5000 &C
cording 10 r advertisement that appears in
several papers to-day. Dr.. =. L. Nelden Of
No. l3 East Twenty-ninth-st-, who offers this
amount for the coveted member told 2 Tribune
reporter last night that he does so on behalf Of
wealthy Western patient who lacks left
ear. Dr.. Nelden said that his patient was
most anxious 10 avoid notoriety. and therefore
his name could not be divulged, but that he
was q Western mine owner who had spent
many years at Butte Mont.
Having made his fortune at the mines. the
Westerner came East a few days ago. ex-
planned the doctor. 10 seek medical advice as 10
the possibility of obtaining an ear by the
grating process, to replace the one he had lost
Dr. Nelden said that his patient refused TO tell
how the ear went, although from all appear
ances it looked as if il had disappeared in a
shooting ARRAY. The doctor explained that the
Westerner was forty-hve years old and looked
like a man who had seen a great deal Of life
but now desired settle down and enter civil
LIED society The doctor intinnated that his
patient even had rnatrirony in view Under
the circumstances the Westerner feels that his
Disagreement viii prove a source of great dis
tress TO him and he is willing TO pay a big price
for a permanent relief so runs the doctors
tale
gently in the last few days in the hope OF find
ing a subject" said Dr. Nelden, ''but thus far
have not been able 70 obtain satisfactory case
Although there are many people who appear
willing to part with for 5000 when
the offer is first put 10 them. they invariably
seem 70 back down when the surgeons knife
appears in sight Only yesterday 1 obtained
Just the kind Of a subject we require The mans
ear was trife bigger than the average, which
is the kind OF ear we want, nv patient being a
big man The subject expressed perfect willing
ness TO be operated upon when I got hold Of him
in dispenSery, but when I attempted TO per-
form the operation he said that he would rather
wait for a couple Of weeks so that he could fully
make UP his mind. Ny patient requires an i'm
mediate operation, as he Is anxious 70 leave this
city for another city, where he intends 70 settle
down am hoping that by advertising shall
be able 10 obtain the man I want
7 do not intend 70 take the whole ear from
the first operation and stitch II 10 the
head Of my patient shall then have the pa
tent and the subject confined in room up
stairs with their heads fastened close together.
for about two weeks At the end OF that time
when the skin has properly grated / shan per-
form another operation and sever the rest OF
the from the subject
NY patient is well known out West and
therefore does not desire that the news OF his
mission East shall leak out there. he has until
now worn his hair long. in Western IsSalon' SO
thar his Disagreement has been partially con
cealed. Now that he is going INTO s9c'ely ne
finds himself required 70 have his halT cut IN
conventional manner The operation Is per
fectly feasible. I have before now Eratted sew
eral parts Of ears patients althoubn nave
never attempted 70 replace an entHe ear