SELLING AN EAR.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17017, 14 December 1920, Page 2

SELLING AN EAR.

ft KEW YOItK, October 19. Mr Frank S. Chisada, thfc wealthy Cuban planter whose quest for a left -ear has brought offers from "various parts of the world, has encountered nn apparently insurmountable obstacle just at the time when he believed ho had found tin'ear of satisfactory dimensions and colour. " ■ Mr Cusada lost his own left ear in a motor-car accident, in Cuba, .and came to Xew York in the hope of Snding someone willing to part with an car for a cash consideration. From hundreds of offers, at prices ranging as high as £20.000. Mr O-isada selected the ear of one David Sinker, a New York workman, as the most suitl nble tor his purpose, and agreed to pav the i>SO that Mr Sinker wanted Toon a difficulty presented itself. Mr Cxssada's lawyers discovered a provision in the criminnl law which says. "A person who inflicts upon himself an injury fn order to obtain alms or any charitnblo relief ig guilty of felony." In addition to expert- surgeons j it'now appears that Mr Cusada requires the spr•vices of some leadiug lawyers before his ear-drafting experiments are concluded. I ____________ . ■ _